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New World Record-Longest 'Megaflash' Lightning Confirmed. It Covered A Distance From East Texas To Near Kansas City
Scientists have confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash in a thunderstorm complex, which hit the Great ...
ZME Science on MSN1d
The Longest Lightning Flash Ever Recorded Stretched 829 Kilometers From Texas to Missouri
Unlike the classic forked bolts that crash to Earth in a matter of milliseconds, megaflashes slither horizontally through ...
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NOAA Satellites Help Certify World’s Longest Lightning Flash – Over 500 Horizontal Miles in the United States
Image from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite of the thunderstorm complex that produced the megaflash lightning bolt on October 22, ...
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ASU professor helps measure longest lightning flash in new certified record
In October 2017, a thunderstorm in the United States produced lightning that extended across several states. Now, researchers ...