Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the US ...

The United States has a new lightning champion. Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation's lightning capital, ...

The National Lightning Detection Network counts all of the lightning flashes and strikes across the U.S. Some Michigan ...

Overall, the report found a 20 percent increase in lightning activity in the US, reaching an 8-year high. There were 252 ...

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 four ...

More numbers from 2025 in the world of weather are in the books. Meteorologist Adam Rutt takes a look. Though severe weather ...

A small Oklahoma town overtook a tiny Texas community in 2025 as the U.S. lightning capital, where lightning density counts ...

Oklahoma has surpassed Florida as the nation's new lightning leader, recording about 73 flashes per square mile in 2025. This ...

Lightning is fast, unpredictable, and deadly but lightning deaths are highly preventable. As Houston prepares to host the ...