Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning strikes near St. George, Utah. jerbarber/iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s been a warm day, maybe even a little humid, and ...

lightning almost never strikes the North or South Poles. These are just a few of the things NASA scientists at the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) in Huntsville, Ala., have ...

The arrival of summer brings increased chances of thunderstorms and dangerous lightning. NASA marked National Lightning Safety Awareness Week by highlighting the unique contributions agency lightning ...

When Hurricane Harvey approached the Texas coast for its first of two landfalls on Aug. 25, a new and advanced weather satellite watched its every move. The spacecraft, known as GOES-16, is still in ...

When summer monsoons bring thunderstorms to Southwest Colorado, lightning bolts can come fast and furious. Justin Moore, assistant manager of the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch Center made the ...

When lightning splits off like this, there's a chance it will strike the ground in multiple places. Credit: Felix Mittermeier/Unsplash Although the likelihood of a human being hit by lightning is ...

Katrina Virts was looking at data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, a network of sensors that tracks global lightning, and noticed it almost right away: a peculiar line of lightning ...

Jeppesen is offering U.S. Precision Lightning Network data as separate maps that are updated every 10 to 15 minutes; the maps also include lightning data with infrared and visible satellite images.

Whenever Florida State University meteorology professor Henry Fuelberg is at home and there’s a thunderstorm, he likes to sit in a rocking chair on his covered front porch, watching the lightning and ...