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The Longest Lightning Flash Ever Recorded Stretched 829 Kilometers From Texas to Missouri
On October 22, 2017, a thunderstorm unfurled across the Great Plains of the United States. To anyone watching from the ground ...
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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, ...
World's longest lightning flash confirmed as new record
A 515-mile-long lightning strike that traveled from Texas to Missouri has been confirmed as the new world record.
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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 ...
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New World Record-Longest 'Megaflash' Lightning Confirmed. It Covered A Distance From East Texas To Near Kansas City
A megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...
How to tell how far away lightning is by counting
Did you see a flash of lightning? Start counting, because that can tell you how far away the thunderstorm is, and if it's ...
Heat wave continues Wednesday before storms, flash flooding and cooler air arrive later this week
Record-setting temperatures are possible once again Wednesday in the Philadelphia area before storms on Thursday.