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

You've probably seen lightning flash across the sky, but do you know why and how it happens? This simple science activity ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Victoria, Chaska, Waconia and Excelsior fire departments responded to a house fire at 8818 Ridge Ponds Drive in Victoria yesterday. A lightning strike apparently caused the fire, according to ...

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 ...

More than 10 million lightning strikes have been recorded across Australia so far this year, with some causing widespread ...

Vaisala relies on long-range network detection to accurately assess lightning data, for both in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. Lightning produces intense radio waves that propagate ...

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 ...