As spring approaches, we can expect more severe storms, which can bring deadly lightning strikes. While summer is the busiest ...

Why Lightning Happens — And Why It’s So Dangerous. Meteorologist Matt Bullock explains.

Scientists have successfully modeled large lightning strikes that occur on a kilometer scale in a lab setting of only a few ...

The numbers are out, and Texas once again topped the list for the most lightning strikes out of any state in the United States, according to an annual report from Vaisala Xweather.

Did you know: lightning can strike the same place multiple times? For example, the Empire State Building is reportedly struck by lightning roughly 23 times per year. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — More numbers from 2025 in the world of weather are in the books. Meteorologist Adam Rutt takes a look. Though severe weather season is still several months away, we can look ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with ...

Researchers in Germany assessed lightning risks in livestock-integrated agrivoltaic systems, identifying key injury mechanisms and establishing safe step and touch voltage limits. Their simulations ...

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the U.S. have reached an 8-year-high, according to Vaisala Xweather. Xweather ...

Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.

After four years bouncing between Florida and Texas, America’s lightning capital shifted north in 2025, as a small Oklahoma community overtook longtime lightning hot spots in the South. While Florida ...