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A record-breaking lightning bolt just ‘shocked’ meteorologists
NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the first of four NOAA satellites that’s equipped with geostationary lightning mappers and is joined by similar satellites launched by Europe and China.
A massive lightning ‘megaflash’ set a world record — it stretched for a whopping 515 miles
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, turned out to be a staggering 515 miles long. A new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society documented the new lightning record, which beat the previous title holder, a 477-mile bolt from April 2020.
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Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space, simulations showNow, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...
There’s a new world record for the longest lightning strike in history, and a Georgia Tech researcher helped uncover it.
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It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to ...
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