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A lightning strike which scored a direct hit on a gas tank triggered a huge explosion of "pulsating orange" to fill the night sky near Oxford.

Firefighters couldn't save the large family's home after what's thought to be a lightning strike set it on fire.

Flash flooding has damaged homes and lightning set a car on fire on Perth's wettest June day in 37 years.

Eastern states are in for a wet start to the week as unsettled conditions take hold.

A man has been rushed to hospital after being struck by lightning on a golf course near Brisbane.

The eight-year-old child remains in a critical but stable condition after he was struck south of Wollongong, near Shellharbour.

The eight-year-old's injuries include scars and burns to his chest.

In a development that sounds straight out of a science fiction film, pulsing lasers shot into the sky have managed to guide electrical bolts. And it could be used even in Australia.

A new report has revealed the staggering number of strikes in just five minutes.

A ferocious night of storms have left tens of thousands of Brisbane residents in the dark.

It's been an electric start to the new year, with a map showing a staggering number of lightning strikes bore down over two states in 24 hours.

Weatherzone has released data showing 34,027 lightning strikes were detected within 100 kilometres of city on December 5.

South Australians have snapped photos and videos of a spectacular spring lightning show.

An Adelaide man has died, with his brother by his side, after being struck by lightning in South Australia's Riverland.

A community has been left "devastated" by the deaths of two young student rowers who were killed by an apparent lightning strike in Florida.

Don't ignore that sound, because where there is thunder there is lightning, and lightning can kill or maim in ways you would least expect it.

Amber Escudero-Kontostathis is the only survivor of a deadly lightning strike outside the White House earlier this month, and despite going through something so life-changing and suffering nerve damage, she said she's recovering quickly.

An ominous-looking storm was rolling in when Kristoffer Green and his family pulled up at an Ipswich medical centre in Queensland.

An elderly couple celebrating more than 50 years married were among three people killed in a lightning strike near the White House.

The four victims, two men and two women, were injured in Lafayette Park, located directly outside the White House complex in America.

As thunderstorms roll in from the sea, why do bolts of lightning seem get bigger and zap harder once they hit land?

Smart lights that know when you're there and how you move are coming, says Nanoleaf's CEO.

The girl saw the bolt's reflection in her mirror and then 'all of a sudden felt a shock'.

At least 370,000 lightning strikes hit Western Australia's south-west region

The rocket that will kickstart humanity's attempts to return people to the moon weathered four lightning strikes on the weekend, with the storm caught on NASA's live feed.

If you're ever at the beach or out on a sandy dune and you see something that looks vaguely like a tree root made of glass, handle with care.

Two new world records for megaflashes of lightning have been recorded by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), including one for longest distance of a singular flash in North America and one for longest duration in South America

FIFO workers treated to a spectacular display of lightning during a tropical storm in the Western Australia.

A lightning bolt has destroyed a yacht in Melbourne's bayside, causing a fire inside the boat and melting away much of its side.

As extreme weather wreaked havoc across the globe in 2021, a stunning change was happening in the far northern Arctic.

More than one million lightning strikes erupted across Australia in the past 24 hours amid thunderstorms sweeping the country.

A young lifeguard was killed and seven other people, including three other lifeguards, were injured when lightning struck a Jersey Shore beach on Monday afternoon, authorities said.

Witnesses say several bolts hit the group as they disembarked from a boat.

Lightning has killed at least 38 people across two Indian states over the past 24 hours, officials said Monday.

Mexico's state-owned oil company said today that a bizarre chain of events, including a lightning storm and a simultaneous gas pipeline leak, set off a strange subaquatic fireball seen last week in the Gulf of Mexico.

A 15-year-old girl died after she was struck by lightning while swimming in America.

Storms and lightning might go together like cheese and Vegemite for Australians, but a recent electrical display in the skies above Peru was a genuine weather event for the locals.

Homes were flooded, cars were crushed and thousands of homes left without power - now, Queenslanders are cleaning up.

A nine-year-old by has been struck and killed by lightning while on a soccer field in the UK.

Stunning vision shows the moment a tree is shattered by a lightning bolt, directly outside a US high school.

Paramedics were called to Clinton State School just after 1.30pm following reports of the incident.

Paula Davis and her grandchildren were inside their Pimpama home when they heard an explosion.

The bodies of two giraffes were found on March 2 this year in the Rockwood nature reserve, around 180km west of the South African city of Kimberley.

A lightning strike in Jamaica killed two people while they picked fruit in the island's southwest region, police said.

A nine-year-old girl in the US has died after a lightning strike hit both her and her sister while they were on a family hike over the fourth of July holiday weekend.

A US highway patrol officer is captured 'awfully close' to being struck by lightning while assisting a driver on a highway roadside.

A lightning flash that stretched from Argentina across Brazil all the way to the Atlantic Ocean is the longest in recorded history.

At least 104 people have been killed by lightning strikes as disastrous monsoon storms swept India's eastern and northern states.

A lightning strike is being blamed for devastating fire that destroyed a home in South Australia's Barossa Valley.

A teenage boy has been struck by lightning while walking on a popular bush track near an iconic NSW tourist attraction.