Every second, roughly 44 lightning flashes crackle across the planet, a rate that adds up to about 3.8 million strikes per ...

Lightning struck the ground at a Greater Cincinnati golf course, leaving behind a bizarre, web-like pattern. An employee at Ivy Hills Country Club in Newtown captured a video of the green last week, ...

A 50 percent increase in the number of lightning strikes within the United States can be expected by 2100 if temperatures continue to rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, a new study claims.

A single lightning bolt heats the air around it to roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit in a fraction of a second, a temperature ...

Data on lightning patterns in the Amazon show how clouds are affected by particulate matter emitted by the fires used for slash-and-burn foresting practices. These findings could be used by climate ...

A chart showing lightning distribution has been developed using color variations to show the average annual number of lightning flashes per square kilometer based on space-based optical sensor data ...

During a series of strong storms that moved through Lexington on Friday night, lightning struck a flag in Lakeside Golf Course off Richmond Road. The strike left an intricate pattern on the grass and ...

New research has shown climate change could alter lightning patterns across Europe. This could lead to more lightning over mountains and in Northern Europe and less lightning over central Europe. The ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Does this mean an increase your odds of getting struck by lightning? Technically yes, ...

A monsoonal weather pattern over Southern California resulted lightning, thunder and scattered showers across San Diego County on Saturday night and Sunday morning. “Widely scattered T-storms are ...