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 ...

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).

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 ...

Sure enough, the video he took caught the lightning bolt. He isolated a video frame and created a photo from it. "It was pretty freakin' awesome," Policastro said. "I don't even recall the boom.

This high-speed camera captured an extremely detailed video of lightning striking residential buildings in Brazil. While a regular video is taken at 30 frames per second, the high-speed version is ...

Getting inside a sturdy structure or at least an automobile is the best move when thunder roars, but just not being in water or being the tallest object around is a good start.

The lightning struck just moments after the homeowners left to get lunch. The strike also left the home with three large holes in the roof and structural damage around the door frames, as seen in ...

A photographer has captured a striking time-lapse photo of more than 100 individual lightning bolts during a fierce thunderstorm in Turkey. Astrophotographer Uğur İkizler created the ...