The smoke is expected to remain over the northern and central Plains of the United States for the next couple of days, ...

A massive 515-mile-long lightning flash that struck a storm hotspot in the US Great Plains in 2017 has been named the longest ...

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

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...

In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...

Scientists have just confirmed an October 2017 ‘megaflash’ set a new world record for the longest lightning streak ever recorded. It streaked across eastern Texas and the Great Plains, touching down ...

A megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...

The Almanac’s winter forecast typically releases each August and often makes headlines with bold predictions of bitter cold, ...

The GOES satellites are a major part of the puzzle, since they continuously monitor the sky. They also identified the longest ...

A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially the longest ever ...

A lightning bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the ...

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