The lightning crouch, a baseball-catcher-like stance some cite as a safeguard against lightning strikes, offers no meaningful ...

As storm season gets underway in much of the United States, the National Lighting Safety Council is spreading awareness about ...

The lightning crouch, a baseball-catcher-like stance some cite as a safeguard against lightning strikes, offers no meaningful ...

Each year, there are millions of lightning strikes in the United States. These strikes can be dangerous with about 20 people ...

Guidance on kneeling when lightning strikes is well-intentioned, but it’s actually not the best course of action.

Tornado season is here. Weather data tracked by The Courier Journal showed at least 66 tornadoes were recorded in Kentucky in ...

John Jensenius, a lightning safety specialist for the National Lightning ... of urgency about the need to seek safe shelter during a storm before threats of lightning intensify.

As storm season gets underway in much of the ... to move as fast as you can to a safer place,” John Jensenius, a lightning safety specialist with the National Lightning Safety Council, said ...

If you’re not sure what to do in these conditions, that's understandable: This type of weather is very rare here.

John Jensenius, a lightning safety specialist for the National Lightning ... of urgency about the need to seek safe shelter during a storm before threats of lightning intensify.

Well, by definition, all thunderstorms produce lightning, but we don’t use that as a precursor for a warning,” he says. “If we did, we’d be issuing warnings for every thunderstorm.

A three-story townhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland was struck by lightning, which sparked a fire in the attic of the ...