A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three states is the new record holder for longest flash. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Monday announced that a single bolt ...

On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization certified the record for the longest single lightning bolt ever measured on Earth: a 515-mile long “megaflash” occurring over the southern United ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

At least four people were struck by lightning over a time span of roughly 24 hours on June 19 and 20 as summer thunderstorms pummeled parts of the nation. A 15-year-old boy survived being struck by ...