With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: as a thunderstorm moves through an ...

Despite having fewer storms than many other states, Michigan still sees many cases of people being struck by lightning.

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 ...