(WGHP) – You may have heard the saying “When thunder roars, head indoors.” For severe weather preparedness week, let’s dive into how to stay safe when lightning is nearby. Lightning strikes the United ...

Ever sit outside on a warm summer's evening and notice flashes of lightning, but no actual rain clouds near you? This is commonly referred to as "heat" lightning. While it's not uncommon to see these ...

Heat lightning is a term used often in the Ozarks. During the hot summer nights, distance clouds flicker with lightning, looking like a chaotically choreographed dance in the night sky. Despite heat ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On late summer nights, you can often see flashes off in the distance on the horizon. These flashes are commonly referred to as “heat lightning”. Technically, there is no such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Summer evenings can often deliver storms seen firing in the distance with frequent flashing, but ...

CADILLAC — Summer is just around the corner, and we are already feeling the temperatures! This past week, the Doppler 9&10 Weather Team has been forecasting temperatures in the 80s and low 90s. With ...

In many places, “heat lightning” is common during the hot, humid months of July and August. Heat lightning, according to some, is a flash of cloud lightning that isn’t accompanied by thunder and is ...

Lightning during one of Arizona’s powerful monsoon storms can be beautiful to look at but, on average, two people a year die in Arizona from lightning. In an effort to try to track this weather ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The lack of audible thunder on a warm summer night can create the impression that heat lightning is somehow different, but technically, heat lightning is not a specific type of ...

Will Jones from Smithfield, North Carolina, sent me the above picture during Saturday evening's storms. Growing up, I always heard this called "heat lightning." Other WRAL Top Stories It wasn't until ...