DUBLIN -- A woman recording video of a hail shower got the fright of her life when lightning struck right next to her. Tap to view if on News app. Nicola Duffy, a lecturer at Dublin's Institute of ...

Dramatic dashcam video caught the moment a bolt of lightning struck an electric pole in South Carolina, causing a transformer to explode — shooting a fireball into the sky beside oncoming traffic. An ...

Spectacular lightning lit up the night sky as thunderstorms brought heavy rain and flash flooding to Los Angeles on Thursday ...

A church steeple in Grays Harbor County was destroyed this week after a lightning strike. The incident happened at the Saron ...

Sergio Candido is the managing editor for the South region at cbsnews.com, coordinating multiplatform news coverage for CBS Miami, CBS Texas and CBS Atlanta. He previously worked for outlets including ...

Lightning strikes are some of the most awesome demonstrations of power on Earth. We’ve all seen trees, mountains and skyscrapers struck. But if a car is struck by lightning, then what happens?

As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even ...

As dozens of wildfires burn across California after a remarkable outbreak of dry lightning, a new study warns that a warming planet could bring more lightning-sparked wildfires to the West in the ...