Ever sit outside on a warm summer's evening and notice flashes of lightning, but no actual rain clouds near you? This is commonly referred to as "heat" lightning. While it's not uncommon to see these ...

Our rainy spring has now stretched deep into July, so it's perhaps no surprise that we're also seeing more noisy, window-rattling thunderstorms accompanied by lightning. Just ask anyone who was at the ...

Many people incorrectly think that heat lightning is a specific type of lightning, NWS said, but it is simply light produced by a distant storm. Usually, mountains, hills, trees or the curvature of ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

"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 ...

A megaflash lightning has set the record for being the longest lightning ever recorded in the world. The megaflash traveled over 500 miles, roughly the distance from Washington D.C. to Detroit. The ...

DALLAS — A lightning strike from East Texas back in October 2017 has been certified as the longest single lightning flash in recorded history. But what are these massive megaflashes that can span ...

A lightning flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 was recognized Thursday as a new world record. The flash — dubbed a "megaflash," or a single ...