Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...

The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash, which struck from ...

A lightning​ flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being ...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has certified the longest single lightning flash ever recorded—a staggering 829 ...

A colossal 'megaflash' stretching 829 kilometers across the sky above the United States on October 22, 2017, has been ...

The massive lightning flash spanned from Texas to near Kansas City, surpassing the previous record of 477 miles set in 2020.

A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from ...

In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...

Scientists have announced that a 2017 lightning bolt has set the record for the longest lightning flash in recorded history.

A megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...

A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...