A reappraisal of satellite data from 2017 revealed that a thunderstorm over the Great Plains produced a 515-mile lightning flash, the longest ever recorded. As science advances, researchers expect to ...

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that a 515-mile-long "megaflash" of lightning in 2017 is a new world record. The flash, a term for lightning inside a cloud that does not hit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...