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Lightning Strike Sets New Record for Longest Ever Measured
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) Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes sets the bar.
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.
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Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space, simulations show
Now, 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.
According to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, it also now stands as the 10th largest wildfire in Arizona since 1990, scorching an area more than three times the size of Phoenix.
When thunder rumbles in the distance, there's a quick and simple way to figure out how close the lightning actually struck ...
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Apparent lightning strike and fire at 16-unit complex in Horry County leave residents displaced
An apparent lightning strike and fire Thursday afternoon led to all of the residents of a 16-unit building being displaced, ...
Tampa Bay Lightning forward Anthony Cirelli finished just short of his first 30-goal season in the NHL but is trending ...
It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to ...
A new fire, Incident 667, was reported late Wednesday morning southwest of Mackey Mountain in the southeast corner of Crook ...
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