It’s Severe Weather Awareness Week and The Weather Authority wants you to be prepared for when severe weather strikes!

One extreme weather event that Florida is notorious for is lightning. While places like Texas might have more lightning ...

Lightning generally receives less attention than any other weather hazard. During a thunderstorm, each flash of cloud to ground lightning is a potential killer. However, lightning deaths can be ...

The small Texas town of Teague, about 50 miles east of Waco in Freestone County, was named the nation’s lightning capital in ...

If the charge builds up enough, it flows as a massive electrical current to the ground or to another cloud. This is like a shock or a really big spark and is what we call lightning. There are lots ...

Moreover, the greater Houston area and counties just northwest see more cloud-to-ground flashes per density than anywhere in the U.S. Even more specifically, the lightning capital of Texas—and ...

Find a low spot or depression and crouch down as low as possible, but don't lie down on the ground. Lightning can move in and along the ground surface, and many victims are struck not by bolts but ...

Last year the world recorded over 2.2 billion lightning strikes, a shocking study shows. One Texas city was deemed the ...

The Irish lightning strike caused downtime for many Amazon and Microsoft customers using the two cloud colossuses cloud computing services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and ...

In lightning’s infancy, air acts as an insulator between charges — the positive and negative charges between the cloud and the ground. Once the charges have sufficiently built up, the air’s ...