In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...

The GOES satellites are a major part of the puzzle, since they continuously monitor the sky. They also identified the longest ...

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...

A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially the longest ever ...

Kansas lawmakers slipped in a paragraph on page 254 of a Senate bill back in May, prohibiting any state agency from ...

A lightning bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the ...

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The flash stretched 829 kilometres through a chaotic complex of thunderstorms across the Great Plains in America, from ...

The World Meteorological Organization announced this yesterday (31 July) that after reanalyzing satellite data, it confirmed this event as the longest lightning flash on record ...

The Honkers saw another late lead slip away, as the La Crosse Loggers scored three in the seventh inning en route to a 7-6 win on Wednesday night in La Crosse. The Honkers are now 7-19 in the second ...