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US Lightning Flash Was Longest On Record At 515 Miles
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A 515-mile (829km) lightning flash has set a new record as the longest ever identified. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed the new world record for the flash registered on October 22, 2017, over the Great Plains in the US. It ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A 515-mile (829km) lightning flash has set a new record as the longest ever identified. It stretched from east Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, roughly the distance between Paris and Venice. [...] The advances in technology have also allowed for the recording of the greatest duration for a single lightning flash.
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