A record-breaking lightning megaflash, stretching 829 kilometres, stunned scientists after occurring during a thunderstorm between Texas and Kansas City in 2017. Confirmed by the WMO, this event ...

Scientists have confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash in a thunderstorm complex, which hit the Great Plains 8 years ago this fall. The so-called megaflash lightning extended a ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

(CNN) — Two new world records for megaflashes of lightning have been recorded by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), including one for longest distance of a singular flash in North America ...

A massive 515-mile-long lightning flash that struck a storm hotspot in the US Great Plains in 2017 has been named the longest in the world. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the ...

The huge flash occurred on October 22, 2017, from eastern Texas to near Kansas City The United Nations’ WMO weather agency said the megaflash underlined the epic power of lightning - and how flashes ...

A bolt of lightning dubbed a “megaflash” that shot nearly 500 miles across three US states has set the record for the most far-reaching strike in history. The enormous bolt occurred in the southern US ...