Imagine a storm that rumbles with thunder and intimidating lightning flashes, but not a single drop of rain falls. Dark clouds loom menacingly over a landscape already scorched by days of extreme heat ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - Temperatures will be in the 70s Thursday for Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo and Ventura. Clouds will continue through morning with sunshine in the afternoon ...

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.