Actually, as noted by Sky News, this particular bolt of lightning is what’s known as a “megaflash,” or, as defined by the American Meteorological Society, lightning “with a horizontal path ...

TAMPA, Fla. - The Tampa Bay Lightning is set to debut a groundbreaking fan initiative during the team’s Lightning Launch 2024 event at AMALIE Arena this Friday. More than 6,000 names of 'Bolt ...

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 ...

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 National Weather Service, a bolt from the blue is a cloud to ground lightning strike which appears to come out of a clear sky, hence the name.

The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays. This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some ...