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) Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes sets the bar.

"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 awe-inspiring phenomena, illuminating the skies with its fearsome ...

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 catch it until years later using new lightning-detection tools.

If you were up late Tuesday night, chances are you caught that “chaotic” storm that lit up the San Luis Obispo County sky with thunder and lightning for most of the night. According to the National Weather Service’s forecast discussion, moisture from ...

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 across Northern California since late July. Just in the ...

Researchers in the US have compiled the largest-ever dataset of high-frequency radio signals from lightning to investigate how a bolt’s altitude within a cloud influences how its energy radiates. The research, carried out by scientists at New Mexico’s ...