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Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...
The World Meteorological Organization reported that a megaflash has set a new world record for lightning discharge distance.
A lightning​ flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being ...
A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from ...
NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...
Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long ...
In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...
Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that ...
A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...
The massive lightning flash spanned from Texas to near Kansas City, surpassing the previous record of 477 miles set in 2020.
A colossal 'megaflash' stretching 829 kilometers across the sky above the United States on October 22, 2017, has been ...