The National Weather Service estimates that there are nearly 8 million lightning strikes worldwide per day, but it was a flash of lightning that never touched the ground that is making headlines today ...

CW39 chief meteorologist Idolina Peralez talks about a recent megaflash, which is a single lightning flash that traveled 515 ...

That mega lightning strike, called a megaflash, started over Texas and stretched all the way to near Kansas City during a major thunderstorm in October 2017. The World Meteorological Organization says ...

Two new world records for megaflashes of lightning have been recorded by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), including one for longest distance of a singular flash in North America and one ...

A flash of lightning spanning multiple southern states in 2017 has been named the longest ‘megaflash’ of lightning in the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Oct. 22, ...

In a remarkable meteorological feat, a lightning flash has made history by traveling an astounding515 miles across the United States. This “megaflash” shatters previous records, showing us that nature ...

Shocking! Sparked by a major thunderstorm complex rumbling over the Great Plains, a single megaflash lightning bolt captured by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite was recently certified by the World ...

GREEN COUNTRY, Okla. — If you were awakened by thunder early on the morning of October 22, 2017 you may have witnessed a world record. A lightning bolt that traveled a whopping 515 miles—including ...

Well, it's official. The single megaflash lighting bolt of 2017 was certified as the world’s longest flash on record. The lighting occurred on October 22, 2017, and the horizontal distance stretched ...