Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo flashes up to nine hours a night, 160 nights a year. A new model predicts strikes three months in advance.

Oregon was hit by 8,357 lightning strikes during thunderstorms on July 23. It will spark some new fires, but the storms also brought helpful rain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning flashes over Wombourne in Staffordshire in the early hours of Friday morning [Weather Watchers/nat_photography_8] ...