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 ...

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last ...

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 ...

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.

The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a ...

There's danger out on the water. Already this spring, two Americans have been struck and killed by lightning, both while fishing from a boat. It's a surprisingly dangerous activity: "Fishing leads to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

New York’s landmark One World Trade Center was struck multiple times by lightning in the early hours of Thursday, March 12, footage shows.Palna Patel captured the footage here from Jersey City, ...