American author and speaker Dannion Brinkley was struck by lightning in September 1975 while talking on a telephone during a storm, and doctors said his heart stopped and he was clinically dead for ...

Lightning remains one of the deadliest weather hazards in the United States. In Georgia alone, lightning strikes claimed 30 ...

Students in Environmental Journalism class at the UF College of Journalism and Communications spent their semester reporting on the science, risks and human stories of lightning across Florida, the ...

Lightning is an essential part of nature—balancing Earth’s electrical charge by transferring negative energy back to the ground. But it can also be fatal. That’s especially true in Florida, where ...

FLORENCE — The weather in 2025 gave us more than 6 inches of snow, a tornado-ravaged spring, three flood rescues and even a lightning-strike survivor before calming down much of the second half of the ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with ...