A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three states is the new record holder for longest flash. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Monday announced that a single bolt ...

In a recent milestone confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a truly gargantuan lightning flash has claimed the title of longest ever recorded. Scientists measured it at an ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning streaks across the sky above a windmill and silos on a farm near Baldwin City, Kan., Monday, June 15, 2009. A lightning ...

An electric weather phenomenon just broke a world record. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported on July 31 that a megaflash has set a new world record for lightning discharge distance.

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 ...

This is a pretty cool one! We know that lightning can travel very far away from where it starts, even outside of the thunderstorms that they reside in, but The World Meteorological Organization ...