" It's one of those phrases people use to describe rare events or unlikely coincidences. The idea feels intuitive – what are the odds of lightning hitting the exact same spot again? Yet this common ...

The 2020 fires – the largest in Bay Area history in terms of acreage burned – resulted from separate ignitions from lightning strikes that rapidly escalated from roughly 25,000 acres on Aug. 18 to ...

SAN DIEGO — Late-summer dry thunderstorms rolled into California from the southwest desert region early Sept. 2, bringing thousands of lightning strikes and increasing the risk of wildfires as high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nation matched a grim record for lightning strike deaths in September. Five lightning strike-related fatalities were reported, ...

Here in California, a lot of people are asking, what's next? There has been excessive heat, because of that, rolling blackouts, which, of course, means no air conditioning, and then these apocalyptic ...