Well, it's official. The single megaflash lighting bolt of 2017 was certified as the world’s longest flash on record. The ...

This is one for the record books — a single lightning bolt stretched more than 515 miles across the U.S., from Texas to ...

The 2017 'megaflash' stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, crossing at least three states in seven seconds, ...

Unlike the classic forked bolts that crash to Earth in a matter of milliseconds, megaflashes slither horizontally through ...

In October 2017, a thunderstorm in the United States produced lightning that extended across several states. Now, researchers ...

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