A megaflash lightning has set the record for being the longest lightning ever recorded in the world. The megaflash traveled over 500 miles, roughly the distance from Washington D.C. to Detroit. The ...

Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long bolt that blasted across central U.S. skies ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

A 515-mile lightning flash is the longest ever recorded. The flash covered skies from Texas to Missouri in 2017. In 2020, another historical lightning flash was captured over Uruguay and Argentina. A ...

A flash of lightning spanning multiple southern states in 2017 has been named the longest ‘megaflash’ of lightning in the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Oct. 22, ...

A lightning flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 was recognized Thursday as a new world record. The flash — dubbed a "megaflash," or a single ...

DALLAS — A lightning strike from East Texas back in October 2017 has been certified as the longest single lightning flash in recorded history. But what are these massive megaflashes that can span ...