Two storms in 2020 set two new records for lightning, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced today (Feb. 1). One record was for longest single bolt, a record captured by a flash of ...

At the time, it was recognised as the longest lightning flash ever recorded. ... on Halloween 2018, a lightning bolt over Brazil was later revealed to have spanned more than 440 miles (709 km).

It is one of the most spectacular phenomena of the natural world, striking our planet with a bolt of electrical energy more than three million times every day. But meteorologists have revealed ...

THE world’s longest lightning bolt stretched nearly 500 miles across three states and lasted for almost nine seconds, officials have said. The flash extended 477.2miles across Texas, Louisiana ...

A single bolt of lightning measuring 477.2 miles has been confirmed as the longest ever – leaping across Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas in 2020, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

A bolt of lightning that stretched for more than 750 kilometres — across three American states — holds the new world record for longest flash. The lightning struck from one cloud to another ...

The record-long lightning bolt was spotted over Oklahoma on June 20, 2007, and traveled 199.5 miles, about three-quarters the length of the state. That's almost the distance from New York City to ...

This thunderstorm in April 2020 was found to contain the longest single lightning flash ever. A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 800 kilometres across three US states is now the world ...

A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash.The single flash extended 477.2 miles (768 kilometers) across Texas, Lo… ...