An applied physicist at the Severe Storms Research Center at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Peterson recently confirmed the longest horizontal lightning flash ever measured: a staggering 829 ...

Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

A lightning bolt that shot across the sky from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., during a 2017 thunderstorm has officially ...

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

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

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

A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially the longest ever ...

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Lightning strikes kill 320 million trees yearly worldwide. This causes significant carbon emissions, almost matching ...

Golfers in Florida faced a real life 'Caddyshack' moment as a lightning bolt hit the green during a brutal storm. The golfers at Gator Trace Golf Course in Fort Pierce, Florida, experienced a close ...