“The shift signals a broader surge in lightning activity across the Great Plains,” according to a new report ...

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the U.s. have reached an 8-year-high, according to Vaisala Xweather. Xweather ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Students in Environmental Journalism class at the UF College of Journalism and Communications spent their semester reporting on the science, risks and human stories of lightning across Florida, the ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with ...

The most electrified place in the country is no longer the Sunshine State. New data for 2025 shows that Florida has been ...

Read full article: Trooper Steve on Patrol: Sign confusion at I-4 and Lee Road Over the next few days as the pattern starts to evolve, a pulse of energy is slated to come down and deliver us another ...

The National Lightning Detection Network counts all of the lightning flashes and strikes across the U.S. Some Michigan counties had much more lightning in 2025 than an average year here in Michigan.