Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning strikes behind cactus at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert as a storm hits the Valley on July 10, 2021.

The World Meteorological Organization is recognizing two new world records having to do with lightning, one for the longest duration and the other for the longest single flash. The new records were ...

A new world record for the longest distance lightning flash was declared on Thursday - a megaflash that stretched for 829 kilometres (515 miles) across the United States. The huge flash occurred on ...

The two lightning records confirmed by World Meteorological Organization last week sent shockwaves across the science community and raised the bar for what's to be expected as monitoring technology ...