Getty Image / Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto Deadly lightning strikes killed dozens of people this week in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh An astounding 18 people died at one popular ‘Selfie Spot’ for tourists after lightning struck, the latest in an alarming trend of ‘selfie deaths’ on the rise

Getting struck by lightning is something most people never think about. We drive through storms, fly through storms, walk around the city during a storm and some not so bright people even swing metal sticks around a golf course during storms. But getting struck by lightning does in-fact happen,

If you are ever struck by lightning and wake up in the hospital one of the first thoughts to run through your head has to be ‘I have the worst luck’. There is an average of 51 lightning strike fatalities each year in the USA (51 deaths out of 325,700,000 Americans) with only 10-30% of lightning

Getting struck by lightning is a fear that almost everyone on the planet has. The estimated population in America is over 326,000,000 and only ~47 Americans get struck by lightning each year but that doesn’t stop all of us from worrying about it. One thing that’s often lost in the discussion about

When 38-year-old Daniel Modøl went outside to film a distant storm he didn’t expect it would get so close. He was safely standing on his terrace in Gjerstad, Aust-Agder, Norway and shooting lightning bolts flashing in the area. Nature, however, had planned something more. While still in his