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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

WALDMAN LOOKS BACK ON THE AUGUST COMPLEX. AUGUST 2020. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A HEAT WAVE ON THE 17TH. A STARTLINGLY POWER LIGHTNING STORM STRIKES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. DOZENS OF ...

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 ...