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"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization certified the record for the longest single lightning bolt ever measured on Earth: a 515-mile long “megaflash” occurring over the southern United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – ...

A massive bolt of lightning that flashed across the sky in Texas in 2017 has captured a new world record. Pictured, a separate lightning bolts shoots over Highway 360 near Euless, Texas on Friday, ...

A lightning megaflash that spanned 515 miles from Dallas to Kansas City, Missouri, has set a new world record for the longest bolt. The Oct. 22, 2017, lightning bolt was part of a large cluster of ...

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

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 ...