Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that ...

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A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...

On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization certified the record for the longest single lightning bolt ever measured ...

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Researchers used data from the GOES East weather satellite, which orbits 22,236 miles above Earth's surface, to detect the ...

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The World Meteorological Organization reported that a megaflash has set a new world record for lightning discharge distance.

The record-setting lightning megaflash occurred on October 22, 2017, stretching approximately 829 kilometers, or 515 miles, ...

A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday — a megaflash that stretched for 829 ...