When lightning splits off like ... that occur over the contiguous United States each year, 36.8 million make contact with the ground. A series of maps reveal where those strikes most commonly ...

Last year the world recorded over 2.2 billion lightning strikes, a shocking study shows. One Texas city was deemed the lightning capital of the U.S.

The small Texas town of Teague, about 50 miles east of Waco in Freestone County, was named the nation’s lightning capital in ...

In its analysis, Vaisala defined "lightning events" as individual pulses within in-cloud flashes as well as individual strokes within cloud-to ground flashes. If Texas doesn't strike you as a very ...