A lightning bolt strikes the ocean near a lifeguard tower at Bolsa Chica State Beach in 2021. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Coastal Southern California, which rarely sees lightning, witnessed ...
Yes, lightning can be frightening when it strikes during a storm, particularly when that crack of thunder comes right after, an indication that it was close by. But the photos that sometimes emerge ...
Florida was not the lightning capital of the U.S. in 2025, according to report by AEM. Researchers found Oklahoma led the ...
The Big Apple is electric! Lighting struck two of the city’s iconic skyscrapers Wednesday night as a thunderstorm pounded Manhattan. Dramatic photos captured the split-second moments lightning bolts ...
Lightning strike from the side of the cloud (Copyright 2024 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) This is an incredible picture of a “bolt from the blue ...
An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released new information about a remarkable discovery involving a record-breaking lightning strike that occurred in 2017. After a reanalysis of ...
The most powerful explosions in the known universe come from what are known as gamma-ray bursts — though they may not sound particularly exciting, scientists usually speak about these incredible ...