Eyewitnesses aboard the flight reported seeing near-continuous flashes of lightning outside their windows for more than 20 ...

A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared yesterday — a megaflash that stretched for 829km ...

A single flash of lightning stretching more than 800 kilometres across the US has set a new "megaflash" world record. Could ...

The record for the longest lightning strike was set in 2017 over the Great Plains in a region known as the hotspot for such bolts. The WMO revealed that it travelled such a long distance that it would ...

A lightning "megaflash" that zipped across five U.S. states has set a new record for the longest ever detected.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A new record has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization for the world’s longest lightning bolt, breaking a previous record set by a bolt that flashed across ...

That astonishing bolt struck during a thunderstorm in October 2017, but the bolt's exact distance was finally verified this ...

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

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded ...

"We call it megaflash lightning and we’re just now figuring out the mechanics of how and why it occurs," said Randy Cerveny, a professor of geographical sciences at Arizona State University.