Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baseball fans clear the stands as lightning strikes near the Colorado Rockies’ stadium in 2019. Julio Aguilar/Getty Images As the ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

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Breaking down the science of lightning.

FARGO — Around the world, lightning happens about three million times a year, or about 30 times a second. Not all lightning strikes the ground. Lightning can also occur within a cloud or go between ...

Any square mile of land in the Fargo-Moorhead area will receive an average of about five lightning strikes per year. A particularly vivid lightning storm passing over the area might make this number ...

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning strikes. While famous inventor and U.S. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin discovered the connection between ...

As temperatures climb and thunderstorms pop up across the area, many of you are asking us if we see heat lightning or telling us you have seen heat lightning. Here's the problem: there's no such thing ...