Florida saw more than 25,000 lightning strikes in a 24-hour period over the weekend. First Warning Weather Meteorologist Cam ...

The first complete world map of lightning activity has been created using observations from two earth-orbiting satellites. Central Africa, the Himalayas and parts of South America experience more ...

The appropriately named LightningMaps.org tracks lightning activity all over the Earth thanks to a massive network of detection sensors, and you can watch it all happen in real-time.

NASA has been recording just about every lightning strike for much of the past 20 years, and it has produced a map to show where this phenomenon is most common.

Thanks to its location on the Gulf Coast, Texas is among the world's hot spots for lightning strikes. And Houston is the lightning center of Texas, recording about 1,700 strikes in June and July ...

In this map, created using NASA satellite data, you can see in lurid detail where lightning struck Earth the most between 1995-2002. This historical information can give scientists clues about ...

Click, click cli-cli-cli-click. That's the sound of lightning striking in real-time. At least according to a map made by Egon Wanke and Tobias Volgnandt ...

Hey friends, it’s Lightning Awareness Week — a time to contemplate the power of the sky and think carefully about what you’re going to do this summer to avoid getting struck by lightning. No ...

Average annual lightning activity in the U.S. Roughly 242 million lightning flashes were recorded in the U.S. during 2023, marking the highest number in at least seven years, USA TODAY reported.