The St George’s Club is seeking to install lightning protection measures after recent damaging strikes on the East End establishment. A recent planning application sought permission to install two ...

" It's one of those phrases people use to describe rare events or unlikely coincidences. The idea feels intuitive – what are the odds of lightning hitting the exact same spot again? Yet this common ...

APTOS — A strong weather system along the Central Coast sent rain, rolling thunder and lightning strikes into Santa Cruz County overnight, but fire officials confirmed the following day that there was ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

SAN DIEGO — Late-summer dry thunderstorms rolled into California from the southwest desert region early Sept. 2, bringing thousands of lightning strikes and increasing the risk of wildfires as high ...