That’s when they “felt the effects of a nearby lightning strike,” she told McClatchy ... Hayley Fowler is a reporter at The Charlotte Observer covering breaking and real-time news across ...

At least 4,000 Duke Energy customers in the Charlotte area remained without power Saturday morning after intense overnight storms. A lightning strike sent torrents of water gushing from a water ...

The Miami-Fort Lauderdale area alone had over 120,000 lightning strikes in 2023 ... The map also showed that New England is in the safe zone, which is likely due to salt particles within clouds ...