A perfectly timed photo shows New York’s One World Trade Center framed by two bolts of lightning striking the Hudson River in lower Manhattan. The image was captured by NYC-based photographer ...

This awesome video, shot on May 20 by physicist Ningyu Liu from the Florida Institute of Technology, records a bolt of lightning at 7,000 frames per second - which means it's slow enough for us to ...

Seek Shelter Indoors: The safest place to be during a lightning storm is inside a sturdy building. Get Inside a Vehicle: If you can't find a building, a car is a safe alternative. The metal frame of a ...

When the world’s longest lightning bolt struck over Oklahoma in 2007, it traveled about three-quarters of the length of the state, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which ...

A direct hit by a bolt of lightning kills about 50 people per year. ... What will protect you, to some degree, is the steel frame of your car (sorry convertible owners).

It's what he was doing at Daytona Beach, in 2009, when he snapped his first lightning photo. He hadn't planned it—the lightning bolt just shot into the frame—but he was hooked.

The video, shot from Shimala’s fifth-floor balcony, is electrifying. Not one, two or three — but four lightning bolts zap the city’s tallest buildings all at once in a dazzling display of ...