News

Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long ...
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...
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 ...
In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...
A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, setting a new world record and pushing the boundaries of what scientists ...
In a flash, a single lightning bolt lit up the sky across three states in the Great Plains. On Thursday, after careful ...
The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...
The World Meteorological Organization reported that a megaflash has set a new world record for lightning discharge distance.
Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.
A lightning "megaflash" that zipped across five U.S. states has set a new record for the longest ever detected.
We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...