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

A lightning flash that is longer than 60 miles is considered a megaflash. Researchers first discovered them using new ...

The Habersham County Sheriff’s Office abd the Detention Center in Clarkesville both have been experiencing intermittent phone and Internet outages overnight on Thursday.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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