Strange lightning-strike rashes? Exploding trees? A lake that's a lightning magnet? These lightning facts will, well, shock ...

A lightning bolt that shot across the sky from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., during a 2017 thunderstorm has officially ...

In 2024, 13 people died nationally from lightning strikes, including six in Florida and one in New Jersey, a 59-year-old that was fatally struck on the beach at Seaside Park. This year however ...

The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed a 515-mile lightning strike from 2017 as the longest ever recorded.

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An applied physicist at the Severe Storms Research Center at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Peterson recently confirmed ...

A lightning flash that is longer than 60 miles is considered a megaflash. Researchers first discovered them using new ...

When lightning strikes a tree or other object, much of the energy travels outward from the strike in and along the ground surface. This is known as the ground current. Anyone outside near a lightning ...

Two people have been killed by lightning strikes in New Jersey within the span of eight days. It's happened before.