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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 lightning​ flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being ...
The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash, which struck from ...
In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has certified the longest single lightning flash ever recorded—a staggering 829 ...
A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from ...
The massive lightning flash spanned from Texas to near Kansas City, surpassing the previous record of 477 miles set in 2020.
A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...
Scientists have announced that a 2017 lightning bolt has set the record for the longest lightning flash in recorded history.
A megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...
NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...