Lightning-induced wildfires are severe natural disasters. However, because of the regionality and random nature of lightning, ...

Thunderstorms rolled through parts of the San Francisco Bay Area and California's Central Valley early Tuesday morning, leading to thousands of lightning strikes and sparking several fires. According ...

Summer storms are expected to bring the thunder and lightning to the north state today through Thursday. A chance of thunderstorms are forecast today through Thursday in the north state with isolated ...

Most people probably have an intuition that lightning is big, but few people grasp the true potential scope that a single ...

Billings residents should watch out for lightning when a thunderstorm now in the Red Lodge area reaches the city after 6:15 p.m. The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning ...

After forecasting chances for thunderstorms and lightning over the last few days, we finally saw that activity in San Diego County on Wednesday. A Special Weather Statement went into effect as a ...

If you were up late Tuesday night, chances are you caught that “chaotic” storm that lit up the San Luis Obispo County sky with thunder and lightning for most of the night. According to the National ...

People gather on a hot afternoon last week at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City. Forecasters predict hotter, wetter weather is on the way. (Jonathan Alcorn / For The Times) Southern ...

Bangladesh experiences a diverse kind of natural disaster almost every year. Thunderstorm lightning is one of the most common and deadly hazards among them. Every year, many people and livestock lose ...

Two friends in Australia had a close call with a lightning strike during a thunderstorm in Australia, and they captured the astonishing moment on video. Nick Panayiotou and Daniel Dudman were near a ...

A large tree fell onto the Juarez family home on Mt. Whitney Ave. in Riverside on Sept. 2. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) Scorching temperatures that baked Southern California over Labor Day ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — KGW has issued a Weather Impact Alert for Wednesday morning due to the chance of scattered lightning and thunderstorms. There were two clusters of thunderstorms in the Portland metro ...