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 ...

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

Families of victims from a lightning strike at the Mphebatho Troop festival express their grief and demand answers from the government regarding emergency response failures.

FLORENCE — The weather in 2025 gave us more than 6 inches of snow, a tornado-ravaged spring, three flood rescues and even a lightning-strike survivor before calming down much of the second half of the ...

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 ...