ATLANTA — It’s not often a scientist breaks a world record — let alone their own — but that’s exactly what Dr. Michael Peterson has done. An applied physicist at the Severe Storms Research Center at ...
Two new world records for megaflashes of lightning have been recorded by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), including one for longest distance of a singular flash in North America and one ...
In a recent milestone confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a truly gargantuan lightning flash has claimed the title of longest ever recorded. Scientists measured it at an ...