You’re relaxing in your lawn chair outside during a warm summer night after a hot and humid afternoon when you notice a distant flash of light in the sky. It occurs ...

Amid the nation’s first heat wave of the summer season, lightning killed one honeymooner enjoying the beach in Florida and injured 20 others cooling off on a South Carolina lake. More than 30 people ...

As the weather warms, people spend more time outdoors, going to barbecues, beaches and ballgames. But summer isn’t just the season of baseball and outdoor festivals – it’s also lightning season. Each ...

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Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

It's one of nature's most striking regular phenomena, but you may not know that lightning can appear in many different forms. Intracloud lightning is contained within one cloud jumping between ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — July is the month for lightning in the state of Florida! No place outside is safe from lightning, so the best thing you can do to keep yourself and your loved ones protected is to ...

Worldwide, thousands of people die from lightning strikes each year. Ten times that number endure serious injury from lightning. Certainly, because the population is so large, even numbers like those ...

HOUSTON — Anvil clouds can often look like an alien spacecraft trying to land, We’ve had emails suggesting there is a UFO in the sky and immediately when I see the picture, it’s an anvil cloud. What ...

Severe weather season in Texas has arrived and San Antonio is bracing for a couple of stormy days on the horizon this week. Knowing how thunderstorms develop and identifying cloud formations can help ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Several Local 12 viewers around the Tri-State this weekend sent in photos of an oddly-shaped cloud asking for an explanation of what it is and how it forms. Meteorologist Paul ...