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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 jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...
Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that ...
New Scientist on MSN1d
Longest lightning ‘mega-flash’ sets a shocking new recordA stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially the longest ever ...
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...
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World's longest lightning flash confirmed as new recordA 515-mile-long lightning strike that traveled from Texas to Missouri has been confirmed as the new world record.
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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