In a typical summertime thunderstorm, warm, moist air rises rapidly into the atmosphere, where it hardens into ice crystals, ...

The United States has a new lightning champion. Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation's lightning capital, ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

When thunder roars, head indoors! Lightning is New Mexico’s deadliest weather threat, and since 1959, 90 people have died as a result of a lightning strike. Chief Meteorologist Grant Tosterud and KRQE ...

Volcanic lightning photos are some of the most impressive out there, in my opinion. Volcanic lightning is a striking and rare phenomenon that occurs during some volcanic eruptions. As ash, rock and ...

There are six playoff games this weekend, all played outdoors. The common denominator to these will be wind, but Saturday's games could have a few more weather wild cards up their sleeves.

Lightning strikes from dry thunderstorms lit up parts of the Bay Area Tuesday morning. The National Weather Service said there were roughly 5,000 lightning strikes in parts of the East Bay and the ...

BRENTWOOD, Calif. - Lightning lit up the skies Wednesday night throughout the Bay Area, and firefighters in Brentwood said one such strike caused a house fire when the electricity hit a weather vane ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — KGW has issued a Weather Impact Alert for Wednesday morning due to the chance of scattered lightning and thunderstorms. There were two clusters of thunderstorms in the Portland metro ...