One woman has died and another was injured after a bolt of lightning hit a tree, felling hazardous branches and fragments.

A woman has died after lightning strikes during a storm in New South Wales sent fragments of a tree flying.

The two women had been in the yard of a semi-rural home when the lightning struck and exploded a tree and then jumped to a ...

A woman killed in a lightning strike in south-west Sydney was at a family barbecue when tragedy struck, 7NEWS can reveal.

Flooding and power outages have been reported in Taupō this evening as heavy thunderstorms strike the central North Island.

A possible tornado swept through a swath of Tennessee, killing a mother and daughter and injuring at least three other people ...

The South African Weather Service has issued a Yellow Level 1 severe thunderstorm warning for parts of the Free State, ...

The South African Weather Service (Saws) has released its latest weather forecast for Saturday, 8 February 2025. Severe thunderstorms, extreme heat, and fire danger conditions are expected across ...

The country has experienced some adverse weather conditions in recent months, with a tornado hitting Randfontein on the West Rand in December, injuring 24 people. Last month, bad weather conditions ...

"The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or ...

A severe thunderstorm warning was issued by the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC on Thursday at 10:09 p.m. in effect until 11 ...

Lightning strikes the U.S about 25 million times per year with most of the strikes occurring during the summer months.