"This new record clearly demonstrates the incredible power of the natural environment," professor Randall Cerveny said.

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

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

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

A lightning bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the ...

Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that ...

The WMO’s committee on weather and climate extremes used data from the GOES 16, 17, 18 and 19 satellites, positioned some 22,236 miles above Earth’s surface, to map the origin of the flash. Each ...

Hernando County fire crews battled a fire at the Cemex plant in Brooksville on Wednesday that reached 100 acres in size.

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Conway-area shed damaged after apparent lightning strike ...

It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to ...

A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday -- a megaflash that stretched for 829 ...