A website that tracks "real-time" lightning strikes shows a wide cluster of storms of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast with circles emanating outward, like an explosion on a video game. In the last 15 ...

As wildfires ravaged parts of Colorado earlier this summer, a Web-based tracking tool was helping responders quickly and more accurately find the blazes caused by lightning strikes. Called the ...

These images could give advance warning of strengthening storms. The first image from NOAA's new satellite that maps lightning. NOAA/AP Photo — -- A new lightning tracker that is hovering above ...

Lightning during one of Arizona’s powerful monsoon storms can be beautiful to look at but, on average, two people a year die in Arizona from lightning. In an effort to try to track this weather ...

A new weather satellite parked 22,300 miles above Earth has sent back its first images of lightning storms on our planet, and they are, well, pretty flashy. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...