A single lightning "megaflash" traveled more than 515 miles across the United States, the longest ever measured, according to ...

"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 ...

This map shows the largest lightning flash spotted in the satellite data. Its footprint extended across 44,400 square miles across multiple states. The bar along the bottom shows how the energies and ...

In the middle of a huge midwest storm, a flash of lightning stretched 515 miles from east Texas to Kansas City, Mo., setting a new record. The flash occurred in October 2017, but scientists didn't ...

Arizona is among the states with the highest number of lightning deaths and injuries. Severe weather—including lightning, ...

Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high ...

The unsettled weather that has brought thunder and lightning since late July has generated more than 3,300 lightning strikes in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest — and nearly 32,000 across strikes ...

The end to the rainy Bay Area weather won’t take that long. Gass said that despite the isolated heavy rain cells, most of the ...