One of the best features on the free AccuWeather app is its lightning maps and alert notifications. Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter demonstrates these features designed to keep you safe from lightning.

Inside a thunderstorm, warm air is forced upward in a strong updraft. As the air rises, ice and water particles collide inside the cloud, creating electrical charges. Those collisions build up ...

The official high today is 100. That’s our 37th triple-digit day of the year, so I have updated the Misery Meter. It’s Football Friday Night, and two things that DO NOT go together are football and ...

Spring weather brings severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, large hail and the threat of tornadoes. But even non-severe thunderstorms can be dangerous. Thunderstorms can produce thousands of ...