In a recent milestone confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a truly gargantuan lightning flash has claimed the title of longest ever recorded. Scientists measured it at an ...

ATLANTA — It’s not often a scientist breaks a world record — let alone their own — but that’s exactly what Dr. Michael Peterson has done. An applied physicist at the Severe Storms Research Center at ...

Two new world records for megaflashes of lightning have been recorded by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), including one for longest distance of a singular flash in North America and one ...

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

Lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Although most lightning occurs in the summer, people can ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Lightning imagery over the southern United States from the NOAA showing the longest horizontal lightning flash recorded via the ...