Discover the origins and the major variants that made the Lightning a legend.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — More numbers from 2025 in the world of weather are in the books. Meteorologist Adam Rutt takes a look. Though severe weather season is still several months away, we can look ...

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.

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 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 ...

Florida has long been regarded as the lightning capital of the United States – but it may have competition. A new report by environmental consulting firm AEM found that Oklahoma was the nation’s ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — There is a new lightning capital in the U.S., with Oklahoma unseating Florida in lightning strike density, according to a new AEM report. The report revealed that Oklahoma saw ...