"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

In the middle of a huge midwest storm, a flash of lightning stretched 515 miles from east Texas to Kansas City, Mo., setting a new record. The flash occurred in October 2017, but scientists didn't ...

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

The unsettled weather that has brought thunder and lightning since late July has generated more than 3,300 lightning strikes in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest — and nearly 32,000 across strikes ...