A new technique uses lightning strikes to detect hacking activity. Monitoring global lightning strikes could help detect cyber attacks on the U.S. electrical grid, according to Georgia Institute of ...

Real-time information about individual cloud-to-ground lightning flashes has been used by electric utilities in the U.S. since the mid-1980s. An impressive array of scientific and technical ...

Smoke from the South Fork and Salt fires blots out the sun Tuesday along NM Highway 70 outside of Tilley, NM. (Photo by Danielle Prokop / Source NM) Officials from many agencies responding to the ...

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Scientists who study lightning say the more they can learn, the more society can work to protect people and property from ...

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.

National weather experts struggled this year to gather lighting-related death data as media outlets and emergency managers — main sources of information — were consumed by the coronavirus, wildfires, ...