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 ...

Videos of a mesmerizing gigantic jet of lightning have surfaced following a study into the 50-mile-long bolt that extended into space.