Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

Lightning strikes the U.S. 25 million times a year. Lightning fatalities are more frequent in July. When thunder threatens ...

Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

The start of July will be hot for Northern California, and the Sierra could expect another round of thunderstorms.

You might have heard of the term heat lightning, the idea that lightning can strike without a storm. This is actually not ...

We couldn’t believe it,” Wendy Pelland said. “If we would’ve been there, we would’ve been struck by lightning.” ...