An curved arrow pointing right. What are those odd looking things you always see attached to power lines? Turns out, they're called lightning arresters and they're crucial to preventing certain ...

Researchers use that power to simulate a strike of lightning on a power transmission line or conductor, explained Andrew Phillips, vice president of transmission and distribution infrastructure for ...

Western Oregon was hit with 180 cloud-to-ground lighting strikes and saw 560 cloud-to cloud lightning flashes Monday, ...

Some International Falls area residents were without power for about five hours Monday when a power pole was struck by lightning at about 6:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of Sixth Street. Power lines ...

In the U.S., there are typically 20-25 million cloud-to-ground lightning flashes each year. Knowing the dangers of lightning ...

The first outage in Palo Alto affected about 4,500 customers in the southern portion of the city after lightning struck a tree, which came down on power lines ... and 100+ cloud-to-ground ...