Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven seconds. That’s how long it took a single lightning flash to streak across the sky from east Texas nearly to Kansas City, ...

A super-sized lightning bolt struck scientists as something special. Now, researchers have confirmed that a lightning strike from 2017 has broken a world record. A single flash of lightning that ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have just confirmed an October 2017 ‘megaflash’ set a new world record for the longest lightning streak ever recorded.

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 lightning bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the longest single lightning flash ever recorded. There are only two places on ...

Though it struck over the U.S. years ago, experts have only recently determined that a lightning flash that extended from Texas to Missouri back in October 2017 was actually the longest in recorded ...