Check out this lightning streak across the sky in Washington D.C. The video is from an apartment near D.C.'s Logan Circle. It shows a bright orange lightning strike on the right side of the screen, ...

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.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed a new world record for the longest single lightning flash ever recorded, an astonishing 829 kilometers (515 miles). This “megaflash” lit up ...

A honeymoon tragedy. A groom was enjoying a day on the beach with his bride when, out of nowhere, he was hit by lightning in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. He was standing in ankle-deep water. 29-year-old ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

A police officer’s dash camera captured the moment lightning struck a pole off a highway Monday in South Carolina, causing it to erupt into a fireball. The dash cam footage shows the police officer ...

A viewer shared an incredible moment from his backyard in Bayport. In the video, a powerful bolt of lightning lights up the sky in a flash, turning the sky on the South Shore a shade of purple. To see ...

The skies put on a lightning show for Santa Barbara on Tuesday night with 54 strikes in one hour recorded by the National Weather Service. Credit: Mike Eliason photo Rain and lightning illuminated the ...

Catatumbo lightning phenomenon mysterious disappeared for months in 2010. August 2, 2011— -- A mysterious symphony of rapid-fire lightning bolts used to create the greatest light show on Earth ...