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Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...
A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas ...
“Our findings provide the first precise, quantitative explanation for how lightning initiates in nature,” Victor Pasko, the ...
This new record clearly demonstrates the incredible power of the natural environment. Additionally, WMO assessment of ...
Analysis of satellite data with new computational techniques has shown that the megaflash, which connected with 116 places on the ground, is currently the longest on record ( Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc.
A 'young man' was hospitalized in critical condition and another person was stable after being struck by lightning at Northland HS soccer field.
A single lightning bolt silently crossed three states in 2017. Years later, satellites finally uncovered its record-breaking ...
If you were awakened by thunder early on the morning of October 22, 2017 you may have witnessed a world record.
A shocking video shows the moment lightning hit a truck as it traveled across a bridge in southwest Louisiana.
Image from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite of the thunderstorm complex that produced the megaflash lightning bolt on October 22, ...
It was one for the record books, a lightning flash that reached from eastern Texas to Kansas City. It happened back on Oct.
Well, it's official. The single megaflash lighting bolt of 2017 was certified as the world’s longest flash on record. The ...