It was one for the record books, a lightning flash that reached from eastern Texas to Kansas City. It happened back on Oct.

Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...

A single lightning bolt silently crossed three states in 2017. Years later, satellites finally uncovered its record-breaking ...

If you were awakened by thunder early on the morning of October 22, 2017 you may have witnessed a world record.

Unlike the classic forked bolts that crash to Earth in a matter of milliseconds, megaflashes slither horizontally through ...

“Our findings provide the first precise, quantitative explanation for how lightning initiates in nature,” Victor Pasko, the ...

Well, it's official. The single megaflash lighting bolt of 2017 was certified as the world’s longest flash on record. The ...

Scientists have confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash in a thunderstorm complex, which hit the Great ...

A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas ...

In October 2017, a thunderstorm in the United States produced lightning that extended across several states. Now, researchers ...

Image from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite of the thunderstorm complex that produced the megaflash lightning bolt on October 22, 2017. [Image credit: NOAA/Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere ...

This new record clearly demonstrates the incredible power of the natural environment. Additionally, WMO assessment of ...