On the night of May 15, 2026, a massive storm system produced near-continuous lightning across Nebraska and Iowa, sending the ...
The famous Catatumbo Lightning takes place over a lake in northwestern Venezuela most nights of the year.
Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.
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 ...