The numbers are out, and Texas once again topped the list for the most lightning strikes out of any state in the United ...

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

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-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric tons of carbon emissions, and lightning-started fires burned 93% of the area affected.

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 ...

After a day that saw 10,000 lightning strikes across Perth, three people suffer injuries, and a pet dog killed, an expert ...

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 lightning moved through parts of Collier County Monday night, fire officials say the brief rain that followed wasn’t ...

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 ...

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