Lightning can strike up to 25 miles away from a storm and reach temperatures five times hotter than the sun. Meteorologist ...

DENVER (KDVR) — “Don’t shower during a thunderstorm” and “lightning never strikes in the same place twice” are tips you may have heard growing up, and while some phrases are true, others can do more ...

Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere or between the atmosphere and the ground. It is created by differences in charges becoming too great for the insulating capacity of the air, ...

Ultraviolet cameras captured faint electrical flashes from leaves and branches as storm charges built up in the atmosphere.

Over the last 30 years, lightning has killed an average of 51 people per year. Many more strikes result in permanent injury or disability.

The primary thunderstorm season in western Washington usually kicks off in March. Thunderstorms can occur throughout the year ...

An unseasonable series of thunderstorms was sweeping across Southern California on Tuesday, bringing with them the potential for fire-starting lightning strikes in areas with limited rainfall. In the ...

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 ...

There is a trio of risky weather conditions in the forecast for the Los Angeles area starting Tuesday — thunderstorms, dry lightning and rip currents. A low pressure system will skim the Southern ...