The St George’s Club is seeking to install lightning protection measures after recent damaging strikes on the East End establishment. A recent planning application sought permission to install two ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nation matched a grim record for lightning strike deaths in September. Five lightning strike-related fatalities were reported, ...

For generations, people have passed around the comforting idea that lightning never strikes the same place twice. But nature doesn’t follow our sayings. In reality, lightning plays favorites, and ...

Confirmed lightning strike fires have kept area firefighters on their feet due to scattered thunderstorms over the region. In the Tahoe National Forest there have been more than 340 recorded lightning ...