Scott Butner, a retired PNNL scientist-turned-landscape photographer, has chased lightning storms much of his life.

On a stormy pre-dawn morning in late 2017, a lightning bolt near Dallas unzipped the sky, racing northeast through the clouds of a massive storm system to set a record for the longest distance ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

A surge of monsoonal storms brought instability across the American West this weekend, with severe winds, and lightning that ...

The drier the storm and the drier the vegetation, the more likely lightning strikes are to spark wildfires, according to the ...

This week’s persistent thunderstorms have been both a blessing and a curse. The modest relief from the recording-breaking high temperatures, the assistance with keeping lawns and plants hydrated, and ...