The World Meteorological Organization says a lightning bolt that was visible for some 515 miles from eastern Texas through Missouri in October 2017 is now considered to be the world’s longest.

A newly certified world record lightning bolt is now officially the longest ever recorded, and it passed right through Kansas. Barely!

A career Meteorologist Edward Maina Muriuki was Thursday named the acting Director of Meteorological Services. The Principal ...

The average bolt of lightning is less than 10 miles long, but this was no ordinary bolt of lightning. The World ...

The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Forestry has appointed Edward Maina Muriuki as the Acting Director of Meteorological Services at the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD).Muriuki ...

The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly eight-hour distance by car, according to the ...

A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from ...

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 ...

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

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but ...

As climate change accelerates and populations grow, traditional water management strategies are nearing the point of exhaustion.