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

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

A lightning​ flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being ...

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

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ...

Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that stretched from Texas to Missouri. It sets a new world record, besting the ...

Megaflash hot spots include the U.S. Midwest and southeastern South America, site of the previous record-holder, a 709-kilometer-long bolt over parts of Brazil and Argentina. That lightning still ...

Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...

A lightning record — for now The 2017 megaflash may be the longest ever verified, now beating out a bolt of 477 miles in April 2020, but scientists don’t expect it to hold that title for long.

Most lightning stays within 10 miles of the storm where it originated. When it travels more than 60 miles, it’s considered a megaflash.