Spectacular lightning over the North Bay early Monday sparked 18 small fires in Sonoma County, sending state firefighters scrambling to find them. Unusual in its bluster and length, the storm put on a ...

For generations, people have passed around the comforting idea that lightning never strikes the same place twice. But nature doesn’t follow our sayings. In reality, lightning plays favorites, and ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

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