Some lightning strikes are much more rare and can pack more of a punch. This is due to the different type of charge of the strike. When thunderstorms form, raindrops and ice particles will rub against ...

Lightning remains one of the deadliest weather hazards in the United States. In Georgia alone, lightning strikes claimed 30 ...

FOX 13 Meteorologist Dave Osterberg explains the difference between positive lightning strikes and negative lightning strikes. Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead, ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

Have you ever shuffled through your living room carpet in socks and touched a doorknob to be met with a pop! and a shock? That’s what’s happening in the clouds during a thunderstorm. Our eyes deceive ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As a tropical system moves across southeast Louisiana, it’s not just the rain that has residents on alert, it’s the lightning. Public pools across the metro area, including the ...

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some lightning strikes are much more powerful than others and can often be the culprit behind some of Colorado's wildfires. Here's ...