A single lightning strike can release a 30 million-volt surge, enough to severely injure or kill a person in an instant.

This footage shows massive storm clouds and lightning strikes before a powerful storm in Sydney.

"If you hear thunder, you are likely within striking distance of the storm." In the U.S., there are between 20 million and 25 million cloud-to-ground lightning flashes every year, the Lightning ...

With the wildfires continuing to burn in California, you may have seen claims that wildfires can create their own weather. It ...

"There were 24 weather disasters costing more than a billion dollars in 2024 in the United States alone, of which 17 were ...

Wednesday’s destructive storm was lit up by flashes of lightning, with more than 70,000 strikes recorded within 100 ...

The Madison County IL region, including Edwardsville and Glen Carbon, received different types of precipitation during the ...

See which towns have the highest snowfall totals as of Sunday night, and where lightning and thundersnow occurred.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle recorded observations in his “Meteorologica” dissertation in 340 B.C. about the formation of clouds, rain, hail wind, thunder, lightning and hurricanes.

The more violently wind shear destabilises a storm system, the more lightning is unleashed, as differences between positively and negatively charged regions of a cloud grow more dramatic.