As spring approaches, we can expect more severe storms, which can bring deadly lightning strikes. While summer is the busiest ...

Why Lightning Happens — And Why It’s So Dangerous. Meteorologist Matt Bullock explains.

Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When these pockets of air reach a certain ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Oklahoma has officially replaced Florida as the lightning capital of the United States, recording 73 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes per square mile last year. According to an ...

Florida has long been regarded as the lightning capital of the United States – but it may have competition. A new report by environmental consulting firm AEM found that Oklahoma was the nation’s ...

Environmental technology provider AEM compiled data on U.S. lightning strikes throughout 2025, summarized in a recently published report. If Texas doesn't strike you as a very en-lightning place, ...

Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.