Lightning is Incredibly Hot When people think of heat, they often think of things like boiling water or a hot summer's day.

Lightning has fascinated and excited humans for as long as they have watched the skies. Although meteorologists understand the cloud conditions necessary to produce it, lightning cannot be forecasted.

The small Texas town of Teague, about 50 miles east of Waco in Freestone County, was named the nation’s lightning capital in ...