The Big Apple is electric! Lighting struck two of the city’s iconic skyscrapers Wednesday night as a thunderstorm pounded Manhattan. Dramatic photos captured the split-second moments lightning bolts ...

A massive bolt of lightning struck the iconic Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, during heavy thunderstorms on Friday night. The strike occurred during rare and extreme weather affecting ...

Lightning rods (and the accompanying protection system) are designed to protect a house or building from a direct lightning strike and, in particular, a lightning-initiated fire. Note that lightning ...

“Lightning never strikes the same place twice” is a common idiom used to mean that unusual events don’t happen twice to the same person or in the same place. But unfortunately, it’s not a very good ...

The tallest skyscraper in Western Europe became a gigantic lightning rod Friday afternoon during one of the city's many brief but intense thunderstorms. Ash Patel filmed this video of London's Shard, ...