Some stories sound exaggerated until you discover every detail is documented. Roy Cleveland Sullivan lived one of those lives. Born in rural Virginia in 1912, he grew up near the mountains he would ...

You are 15 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win a lottery jackpot in the United States. Worse yet, being struck by lighting is a one-in-a-million chance given there were only 280 ...

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The nation matched a grim record for lightning strike deaths in September. Five lightning strike-related fatalities were reported, the most in any September since 2013, said John Jensenius, a ...

Lightning develops within thunderstorms when collisions between ice particles and water droplets separate electrical charges ...