Picture this: You're stuck in traffic on a summer afternoon, checking the weather app on your phone as dark storm clouds roll in. You might think about power outages or possible flooding, but you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pickett fire continued to burn in Napa County over the weekend as monsoonal storms brought lightning that sparked small fires ...

Lightning storms are really special for me since all I can really see is light and dark….and lightning is the ultimate ...

Scorching temperatures that baked Southern California over Labor Day weekend will continue this week paired with thunderstorms and lightning strikes that will heighten fire risks across much of the ...

Multiple fires sparked by lightning strikes burned more than 4,700 acres in the Mother Lode before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, and one of the blazes near Vallecito prompted evacuation orders and warnings ...

After a relatively quiet wildfire season, a spate of lightning storms has ramped up the number of fires across Oregon to the highest so far this season. The good news is that incoming rain and cooler ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers at Stony Brook University may have captured lightning in a bottle — or at least explained one of the theories of how it is created. Working with researchers in Spain and China, Stony Brook ...