Scientists have suspected that direct lightning strikes are good for some trees, but now they’ve confirmed it. A new study shows that a tall tropical tree species called Dipteryx oleifera has evolved ...

A lightning strike started a fire that damaged a house in Wilbraham late Tuesday afternoon. Wilbraham Fire Captain Daniel Corliss told 22News lightning struck a tree next to a chain link fence at 628 ...

FEASTERVILLE, Pennsylvania -- A swim club is closed until further notice after a tree fell on a large tent, injuring nine people. Lower Southampton Township workers surveyed the damage at Dolphin Swim ...

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 ...

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 ...