Lightning can strike in an instant. “I don’t remember anything again until I woke up in the hospital at Vanderbilt after my first epilepsy attack,” said Amanda Vernon. Amanda Vernon was struck by ...

Combine the speed of lightning with the heat it creates and you have a sometimes deadly outcome. About 90 percent of people struck by lightning survive but survivors often have lasting effects from ...

The National Weather Service says a powerful lightning strike combined with unique atmospheric conditions caused Friday night's widespread loud boom and bright flash across Northern Virginia. The ...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reminding the public that lightning strikes are harmful to health and are potentially fatal. “A lightning bolt is a million times more powerful than household ...

Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama have published dramatic maps showing the locations of lightning strikes across the tropics in Global Change Biology. Based ...