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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — July is the month for lightning in the state of Florida! No place outside is safe from lightning, so the best thing you can do to keep yourself and your loved ones protected is to ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) -Why Lightning Happens — And Why It’s So Dangerous HOW IT FORMS Inside a thunderstorm, warm air is forced upward in a strong updraft. As the air rises, ice and water particles ...

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“Our findings provide the first precise, quantitative explanation for how lightning initiates in nature,” Pasko said. “It connects the dots between X-rays, electric fields and the physics of electron ...

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the ...

Worldwide, thousands of people die from lightning strikes each year. Ten times that number endure serious injury from lightning. Certainly, because the population is so large, even numbers like those ...

The Lightning head into the NHL's Olympic break on a 19-1-1 tear. Mark LoMoglio / Getty Images TAMPA, Fla. — As confident as Jon Cooper is — and this is a man who wore a “Scarface”-themed outfit to ...

Inside a thunderstorm, warm air is forced upward in a strong updraft. As the air rises, ice and water particles collide inside the cloud, creating electrical charges. Those collisions build up ...