The National Lightning Detection Network counts all of the lightning flashes and strikes across the U.S. Some Michigan ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

With approximately 73 lightning flashes per square mile last year, Oklahoma displaced the state that has traditionally dominated this ranking, "signaling a broader surge in lightning activity across ...

The Great Plains region, including Oklahoma and parts of Texas, is experiencing more frequent severe storms, according to a ...

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 ...