LIGHTNING

From positive to negative strikes and everything in between, here’s a breakdown of the science behind lightning.

Lightning is likely to strike tall, isolated objects more than once.

Hazardous weather has killed at least 36 people in northern India over the past 24 hours, including 12 who were struck by lightning.

A lightning storm caused quite a shocking scene after it zapped a massive wind turbine in North Texas, setting it ablaze before it came tumbling down.

Flatonia, Texas, saw the most lightning of anywhere in Texas and the country last year

A lightning strike is the suspected cause of a fire at a home in Northwest Bexar County late Tuesday night, Bexar County firefighters said.

Lightning was blamed for a house fire that caused an estimated $150,000 in damage on the city’s Northwest Side.

What started as a sunny day at Topgolf with friends and family quickly turned into a dangerous situation for San Antonio teen Tomas Gomez.

KSAT viewers share photos & videos of electric storms in the San Antonio area.

The NHL said Friday that six Dallas Stars players and two staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 in a development that will push back the opener for the defending Western Conference champions by nearly a week. The Columbus Blue Jackets also held a number of players off the ice “out of abundance of caution” in another reminder that the pandemic will likely play havoc with the season opening next Wednesday. Dallas had been set to open the season Jan. 14 at Florida. The Dallas players and staff are self-isloating and the team’s training facilities were closed for the next several days amid contact tracing. The NHL has shortened the regular season to 56 games for each of its 31 teams, who will play only division foes and sometimes multiple times in a matter of a few days.

SAN ANTONIO This weeks storms were electric, according to CPS Energy. The utility company recorded a total of 11,426 lightning strikes in its service area from May 24 - May 28. As the graphic shows, the National Weather Service issued 88 severe thunderstorm warnings, 10 tornado warnings and 10 flash flood warnings over the past five days in the area. The most lightning came on Memorial Day, according to CPS Energy data, when nearly 6,000 lightning strikes were recorded. Photos: Hail pelts San Antonio as severe storms pass through cityThe active rain pattern came to end on Thursday night, and a much more comfortable weekend lies ahead.

SAN ANTONIO – A destructive fire caused by lightning has left eight Northeast Side families struggling to rebuild their lives. 14 adults, 3 children displaced by overnight fire sparked by lightningThe flames that erupted around 2 a.m. Tuesday destroyed an entire building at the Villa Rodriguez apartments, located in the 3400 block of Salado Creek Drive. “Lightning struck, apparently, the roof and on our arrival the fire was through the roof,” said Battalion Chief Will Pritchett with the San Antonio Fire Department. “It was pretty advanced.”Firefighters had to use a ladder truck to extinguish flames that burned through the roof at the Villa Rodriguez apartments. “It sounded like a bomb went off when the lightning hit the top of the building.”Venegas happened to be wide awake, watching television at the time.