According to the National Weather Service, a bolt from the blue is a cloud to ground lightning strike which appears to come ...

Lightning contributes to weather-related fatalities every year. An average of 22 people per year in the U.S. were killed by lightning from 2013 to 2022. Hundreds more are injured , NOAA says.

Coastal Southern California, which rarely sees lightning, witnessed several hundred bolts Monday from a string of unusual thunderstorms — a display not to be overshadowed by the day’s other ...

In fact, roughly 1.4 billion bolts of lightning strike the ground every year, roughly 3 million a day. That’s around 44 bolts per second, according to the U.K Met Office .

The researchers imaged out more than 300 lightning bolts during a 90-minute storm that passed over the Los Alamos-based interferometer on July 30, 2022.

Bolts like these are called gigantic jets.They are the rarest and most powerful sort of lightning, occurring as few as 1,000 times a year and emitting more than 50 times as much energy as a ...

Lightning struck multiple people and buildings in Tampa Bay within the past few days. Here’s how to keep safe and avoid getting struck.