For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

The National Lightning Detection Network counts all of the lightning flashes and strikes across the U.S. Some Michigan ...

When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they cosmic rays may answer a long debated question about what triggers the ...

The National Lightning Detection Network counted all of the lightning flashes and strikes across our Michigan sky last Thursday and Friday. You won’t believe how many lightning events we had in just ...

(CNN) — Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in ...

Lightning flashes increased 10 percent in 2025 compared to 2024.

A powerful storm moved through the Mid-South on Sunday, March 30, 2025, with FOX13 viewers sending us photos and videos of lightning, hail and even funnel clouds ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive storms, revealing a hidden electrical world few ever witness from Earth.

Oklahoma has surpassed Florida as the nation's new lightning leader, recording about 73 flashes per square mile in 2025. This shift is attributed to an unusually active severe weather season in ...

Conflicting reports spark debate over America's lightning capital in 2025.