The Chicago National Weather Service has designated March 5-11 as Severe Weather Awareness Week in Illinois and Indiana and, among the several phenomena associated with severe thunderstorms, lightning ...

The radio engineer does his best to prevent its intrusion into his equipment, but having a steel structure extending from 150 feet to 1,000 feet in the air invites lightning strikes. Nevertheless, ...

LAKEWOOD RANCH — A terrible storm was thrashing the East Manatee neighborhood of Rosedale when Frances Mallarino saw a bolt of lightning and heard a crash. “I checked my house, sat back down to read, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY – It was a busy night in the ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

In an age of computers and lasers, Morris Rosenthal`s lightning rod business, using the basic principles discovered by Benjamin Franklin, is crackling. Rosenthal is president of the 117-year-old St.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global lightning rod market is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 8% during the forecast period, according to Technavio’s latest report. In this report, Technavio ...

Many parts of the country are still considered high risk for lightning strikes. It is prudent, therefore, for those putting up tall structures to think of protecting them from lightning. A UNESCO ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --It's the suspected culprit in fires that torched a Minneapolis church, a $1 million home in Hudson, Wis., and several other metro homes over the weekend -- 30 million volts of ...