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

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Two people were killed and another seriously injured when lightning struck during severe thunderstorms in Belfast and Hendrina.

“The shift signals a broader surge in lightning activity across the Great Plains,” according to a new report ...

Lightning is an essential part of nature—balancing Earth’s electrical charge by transferring negative energy back to the ground. But it can also be fatal. That’s especially true in Florida, where ...

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 ...

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.

Two people died and one was injured in separate lightning strikes in Mpumalanga towns, with police urging residents to seek shelter during storms.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Lightning Detection Network counts all of the lightning flashes and strikes across the U.S. Some Michigan counties ...

Recent reports of multiple people being struck by lightning in Majaneng, near Hammanskraal in Gauteng, have raised renewed concern about public safety during the peak summer thunderstorm season.