Everyone loves a good thunderstorm, but they can be hard to come by depending on where you live. If seeing a storm unfold as it happens sounds like fun to you, there's a seriously cool website that ...

A small German group called Blitzortung has developed a crowd-sourced map that shows real-time lightning strikes around the world. The maps are driven by a network of volunteers who have set up a $275 ...

A website called Blitzortung.org (German for “lightning radiolocation”) is charting lightning strikes in real time as they happen across the world. The network uses data from volunteer-operated ...

Deadly lightning strikes can occur pretty much anywhere throughout the continental United States. But some places are more likely to have hits than others in the United States, according to data from ...

A website that tracks "real-time" lightning strikes shows a wide cluster of storms of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast with circles emanating outward, like an explosion on a video game. In the last 15 ...

All it takes is a directional lightning detector, a PC, and an Internet connection. Then you can contribute to a sensor net showing real-time lightning strikes through Blitzortung.org. The focus of ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Last week at around three in the morning I was woken by the loudest thunderstorm I’ve ever heard in my life.

It’s been a warm day, maybe even a little humid, and the tall clouds in the distance remind you of cauliflower. You hear a sharp crack, like the sound of a batter hitting a home run, or a low rumble ...

NASA has been recording just about every lightning strike for much of the past 20 years, and it has produced a map to show where this phenomenon is most common. It turns out that the eastern ...