London is set to escape flooding havoc threatening large parts of the UK on Saturday – after a band of storms hit the UK with 30,000 lightning strikes. Temperatures soared on Friday Santon Downham in ...

Parts of the UK could face power cuts across a four day period for as much as 66 hours, the Met Office has warned, due to snow, ice and even lightning storms. Much of the UK is facing one of several ...

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.

In Britain, lightning causes an average of two deaths a year; in South Africa, it can be well over 200. Near Pretoria over ...

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 ...