The U.S. saw its most electrifying year in nearly a decade, with 252 million lightning events recorded in 2025, according to Vaisala’s Annual Lightning Report.

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the US ...

More numbers from 2025 in the world of weather are in the books. Meteorologist Adam Rutt takes a look. Though severe weather ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the ...

There is a new lightning capital in the U.S., with Oklahoma unseating Florida in lightning strike density, according to a new AEM report.

Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

For generations, people have passed around the comforting idea that lightning never strikes the same place twice. But nature doesn’t follow our sayings. In reality, lightning plays favorites, and ...