The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) certified a new record for the longest lightning strike ever documented, measuring 829 kilometers, using data collected during a thunderstorm in October ...

“Lightning can travel quite long distances away from the parent thunderstorm,” Randall Cerveny, the WMO’s rapporteur for weather and climate extremes, told AFP. “That is why some people talk of a ...

A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday - a megaflash that stretched for 829 kilometres (515 miles) across the United States.

Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long ...

The GOES satellites are a major part of the puzzle, since they continuously monitor the sky. They also identified the longest ...

A lightning flash that is longer than 60 miles is considered a megaflash. Researchers first discovered them using new ...