Every year I spend the holidays with my mother in Wisconsin. Each time I’m there, I look outside her living room window and see the lightning protection rod on the roof of the house across the street.

Reduce the risk of property damage by understanding how lightning works. Some people love a great thunderstorm; others are petrified by the first flash of lightning or rumble of thunder. Love ’em or ...

Residential PV systems are generally installed on the rooftop of residential buildings, with a large metal surface area, higher distance from the ground and an exposed location. Such PV systems are ...

As we head into summer storm season, lightning strikes are an increased danger. According to the National Weather Service, approximately 100,000 thunderstorms occur in the United States each year, and ...

Over the centuries, people have developed numerous ways to protect themselves, their homes, and their property from lightning strikes. As arborists in North Florida, one of our major concerns is ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

An airplane flying between oppositely charged regions can trigger lightning within a cloud, from cloud to cloud, or from cloud to ground. Chris Cosner Every airliner is struck by lightning in flight ...