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Scientists using satellite data discovered a record-breaking lightning bolt that stretched 515 miles from Texas to Kansas ...
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In a recent milestone confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a truly gargantuan lightning flash has ...
The massive lightning bolt — stretching 515 miles — struck on Oct. 22, 2017, and extended from eastern Texas to Kansas City ...
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the sky. A lightning bolt here just set the world record for longest strike at 515 miles.
The massive lightning flash spanned from Texas to near Kansas City, surpassing the previous record of 477 miles set in 2020.
A single bolt traveled from East Texas to Missouri in 2017—515 miles in total—and just earned a world record from the WMO.
A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...
A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...
On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization certified the record for the longest single lightning bolt ever measured ...
An applied physicist at the Severe Storms Research Center at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Peterson recently confirmed the longest horizontal lightning flash ever measured: a staggering 829 ...
The World Meteorological Organization announced this yesterday (31 July) that after reanalyzing satellite data, it confirmed this event as the longest lightning flash on record ...