The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree.The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four ...

Four people died from lighting strikes in Florida last year, and it also injures many more people than it kills. Here's how ...

Have you ever shuffled through your living room carpet in socks and touched a doorknob to be met with a pop! and a shock? That’s what’s happening in the clouds during a thunderstorm. Our eyes deceive ...

Lightning, often associated with hills and mountainous terrain, is not confined to high ground and can strike anywhere under ...

Two lightning-related incidents on 3 January 2026 injured multiple people, resulting in two fatalities at the Mphebatho Troop ...

Lightning sits at the boundary between routine weather and sudden hazard. It appears briefly, illuminates a landscape, and ...

At least two people died and about 150 wounded after lightning struck the annual festival in South Africa’s capital Pretoria.