"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, ...

Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long bolt that blasted across central U.S. skies ...

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 ...

Wild thunderstorms generated by monsoonal moisture sparked 5,025 cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning bolts between 11 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Monday in eastern San Diego County, and also spat out ...

For many years, Providence noise-rock legends Lightning Bolt and experimental Osaka wizards the Boredoms have recognized each other as fellow travelers. I once saw Lightning Bolt open a New York ...

The salad on your plate may owe its existence to a thunderstorm. Many people are wary of lightning as a natural phenomenon. A hiker might worry about dark clouds on a day trip or a child might be ...

A lightning bolt that shot across the sky from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., during a 2017 thunderstorm has officially been named the longest ever recorded on Earth. That distance beats the ...

(CNN) — Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in ...