Severe Weather Awareness Week continues,Let's talk about lightning, the most common danger with thunderstorms, as every thunderstorm has lightning regardless of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tennessee ranks 9th in the nation for lightning strikes, averaging nearly 2 million bolts each year. The majority of lightning strikes globally are negatively charged.

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the US have reached an 8-year-high, according to Vaisala Xweather. Xweather operates ...

Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere or between the atmosphere and the ground. It is created by differences in charges becoming too great for the insulating capacity of the air, ...