The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that a 515-mile-long "megaflash" of lightning in 2017 is a new world record. The flash, a term for lightning inside a cloud that does not hit ...
Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long bolt that blasted across central U.S. skies ...
In the middle of a huge midwest storm, a flash of lightning stretched 515 miles from east Texas to Kansas City, Mo., setting a new record. The flash occurred in October 2017, but scientists didn't ...