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 four ...

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.

APTOS — A strong weather system along the Central Coast sent rain, rolling thunder and lightning strikes into Santa Cruz County overnight, but fire officials confirmed the following day that there was ...

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When lightning strikes, it looks chaotic. After all, it’s jagged, unpredictable, and seems to tear through the sky at random. However, there’s a hidden logic to the way it moves. Each bolt follows the ...