Strong rain storms lashed the East Coast Thursday, flooding a New York City highway and other roads and prompting a Long Island, New York, official to plead with people to say home. New York City authorities said the Clearview Expressway in the borough of Queens was closed in both directions and social media posts showed high

New Jersey could get slammed by significant and widespread flash floods on Thursday afternoon and into Friday morning with rainfall totals up to 7 inches possible. “Storms will be capable of producing excessive rainfall rates in excess of 2 inches per hour,

Scientists have revealed that a lightning bolt that occurred over a swath of the southern U.S. in 2017 was the single longest lightning strike ever recorded. At 515 miles long, the flash was the equivalent distance from Boston to the Outer Banks of North Carolina,

Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long bolt that blasted across central U.S. skies from Dallas to Kansas City in October 2017.