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 ...

AccuWeather's Tony Laubach captures dash cam video from May 16 in Ringgold County, Iowa, showing vivid lightning strikes near ...

A pair of megaflashes of lightning over North and South America have set new records for flash distance and duration, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Both flashes occurred in 2020.

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Two new world record-setting lightning ‘megaflashes’ were confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Monday, Jan. 31 including one that traversed the skies ...

*AD/DC plays* It's not the record-breaking lightning bolts but impressive anyway. Credit: kylewolfe / Getty Images It's not quite the right time to debunk that myth about lightning never striking the ...

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 ...

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 ...

FOX 17 News Code Red Weather Team takes an in-depth look at the severe weather threats most commonly seen during the summer ...