The Lightning and Blue Jackets now stand tied at one in their First Round series after Columbus took Game 2, 3-1. Despite a strong start, the Lightning found themselves trailing 2-1 through 20 minutes ...

Positive lightning makes up less than 5% of strikes, but it can be up to 10 times more powerful.

“We call it megaflash lightning and we’re just now figuring out the mechanics of how and why it occurs,” study co-author and Arizona State University climatologist Randy Cerveny said in a statement.

A lightning megaflash that spanned 515 miles from Dallas to Kansas City, Missouri, has set a new world record for the longest bolt. The Oct. 22, 2017, lightning bolt was part of a large cluster of ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...