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).

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.

When the world’s longest lightning bolt struck over Oklahoma in 2007, it traveled about three-quarters of the length of the state, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which ...

On October 31, 2018, a single lightning bolt in Brazil stretched an astonishing 709 kilometers (about 440 miles) across the sky. To put this in perspective, that’s roughly the distance from New ...

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 ...

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