When a bolt of lightning cracked through the sky over Japan last December, it didn’t come by chance. It came because a drone ...

In a world first, Japanese researchers flew a lightning-proof drone in a thunderstorm, using it to induce and direct natural ...

Most lightning flashes occur between or within clouds, but about 40 million lightning strikes hit the ground in the United ..

This type of atmosphere can produce a microburst, which is a sudden drop of cold air from underneath a thunderstorm that creates high winds by the ground ... rain. Lightning will likely cause some ...

The "lightning crouch" is a position previously ... the chances that electricity that enters your body from a nearby ground strike will go through one foot will exit out the other.

It had been 174 days since lightning struck a tree across from the White House ... All surging into the tree, down through the ground and back up the bodies of the four bystanders.

Editor's Note: Chicago's O'Hare and Midway Airports were both under ground ... lightning flashes, thunder, heavy downpours and even pea-sized hail as a narrow band of showers and storms moved ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground ... past 24 hours across three northern Indian states due to intense thunderstorms and lightning strikes ...