Why will a lightning bolt sometimes strike a low ... With the help of funding from National Geographic, he retrofitted the beast, replacing the film technology with extremely sensitive digital ...

If you are outside, seek refuge in a car or grounded building when lightning or thunder begins. • If you are caught outside away from a building or car, stay clear of water bodies and tall ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The burst may expel rain and hail, thunder and lightning, wind and funnel. It may kill people and animals, destroy ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Its dead spire, blasted by lightning, rises to 247 feet. Its four great limbs, each as big as a sizable tree ...

Lightning at Huntington Beach, Ohio In April 2009, Photo of the Day featured nature photographs. While at Huntington Beach in Bay Village, Ohio, I saw a storm approaching fast out of the north.

Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... figured in significant scientific discoveries. Lightning strikes above the Fan and Mortar geysers ...

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... When the cloudburst comes, it’s quick as lightning. They plunge, a score of white tridents, spearing the waves ...