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 ...

“If caught in an open field, seek a low spot and crouch ... urgency about the need to seek safe shelter during a storm before threats of lightning intensify.

KOCO 5 Field Meteorologist Michael Armstrong was on Highway 270 south of Calumet in Canadian County, where he captured a lightning show.

“If caught in an open field, seek a low spot and crouch ... urgency about the need to seek safe shelter during a storm before threats of lightning intensify.

Squatting in an open space when lightning strikes isn ... The current NWS position is that if you’re outdoors during a lightning storm, you’re at risk no matter what, so seeking shelter ...

Severe storms moved across Oklahoma early Friday morning, bringing hail and loud thunder and lightning to the Sooner State.

In fact, Shao added, the strongest electric field ever detected inside storm clouds was 10 times weaker than what would be needed to spark lightning based on that theory. To solve the long ...