lightning

CDC experts recommend pausing this common activity anytime a thunderstorm is nearby due to the risk of lightning.

Just because it's not raining doesn't mean the lightning threat is over - the 30-30 Rule could, in reality, save your life.

For 50 years I've been tracking weather, and otherwise smart adults consistently get these weather facts wrong - here's a list of the biggest severe weather myths.

Summers in the Northland are amazing, but during severe weather you may have minutes or seconds to do the right thing - and avoid these dangerous myths.

Severe thunderstorm season has been delayed, but it's coming in June, and a quick weather quiz may help get you into a weatherwise state of mind.

Lightning strikes are mapped out, and they actually can tell you where the most lightning strikes occur. Did you know 1/3 of lightning injuries happen inside?

A driver from Minnesota can count there lucky stars after their vehicle was struck by lightening on the road.

They say lightning strikes twice. You just don't expect it to happen this close to you.

It's not only the roadway you should pay attention to when you're behind the wheel.

Ah, the awesome power of the weather.

What’s that expression about lightning striking twice?

The National Weather Service estimates that every year, you have a 1/1,000,000th chance of being struck by a bolt of lightning. We’d like to know what the odds are of being hit by a bolt of lightning in the crotch. Normally, we don’t sit around all day thinking about the numeric probability of losing a game of “Roshambo” with Mother Nature...