A bright flash and then a thick, billowing cloud of smoke. That's what a security camera captured when a bolt of lightning struck a parked, unoccupied Newcastle police cruiser during a storm. A ...

A flash flood advisory expired Tuesday at 7 p.m. for Los Angeles and Ventura. ... No one was hurt when a lightning bolt struck a palm tree in their neighborhood.

A megaflash lightning strike is an unusually long lightning bolt that stretches at least 62 miles. These aren’t your typical lightning strikes from an ordinary thunderstorm.