For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a ...

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 four ...

Next time you're stuck in a thunderstorm, try this easy way to calculate how far away you are from lightning strikes.