HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Today on Weather U, we're discussing lightning and severe storms, and how they form. Lightning is a discharge of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ...

The lightning season in the Southeastern U.S. is almost finished for this year, but the peak season for the most powerful strokes of lightning won't begin until November, according to a newly ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Thunderstorms are very common occurrences across Nebraska and Iowa during the Spring and Summer months, so common that you may not think twice about those flashes of light and ...

In the United States, most lightning deaths are reported during the summer months, with July being the deadliest. Lightning strikes ramp up in the summer due to the increase in warm temperatures and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may know the slogan, "when thunder roars, go indoors." That's what you should do when a thunderstorm is nearby. Lightning is one of the most dangerous aspects of storms. It is ...

Lightning. It's not a welcomed sight and brings death and destruction wherever it strikes. It comes in second place behind floods with our dangerous weather. But how does this fiery electricity form ...

DURING a thunderstorm on Sunday afternoon, August 24, 1873, I saw a flash of lightning here exactly answering to Mr. Joule's description of “punctuation.” The note of the storm in my diary ...

For the first time in a long time, the Tampa Bay Lightning are flying under the radar. With a top-three spot in the Atlantic Division likely out of reach, the Lightning have settled into the first ...