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The WMO said the 477.2-mile-long flash broke the previous record for longest detected megaflash distance by about 37 miles (60 km).A second record was also confirmed, for the longest duration of a ...
Along the Gulf Coast in April of 2020, a flash of lightning stretched as far as the distance between New York City and Columbus, Ohio.
The longest known lightning events have been given world-record status by the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, in a recently published study. Study: World-record lightning flash was ...
Sympathetic lightning is the tendency of lightning to be loosely coordinated across long distances. Discharges can appear in clusters when viewed from space. [22] [23] [24] [clarification needed] Upward lightning or ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning flash which originates from the top of a grounded object and propagates upward from this ...
The phenomenon sees the highest density of lightning in the world, at 250 per km 2. [5] In summers, the phenomenon may even occur as dry lightning without rainfall. [6] The lightning changes its flash frequency throughout the year, and it is different from year to year.
Professor Umran Inan of Stanford University linked a TGF to an individual lightning stroke occurring within 1.5 ms of the TGF event, [26] proving for the first time that the TGF was of atmospheric origin and associated with lightning strikes. CGRO recorded only about 77 events in 10 years; however, more recently the Reuven Ramaty High Energy ...
A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash. The single flash extended 477.2 miles (768 kilometers) across Texas ...
GRB 221009A is only the seventh gamma-ray burst known to have generated these rings, [10] and as of March 2023, a record twenty X-ray afterglow rings had been identified around the burst, triple the previous record. [45] [10] The afterglow of GRB 221009A was the brightest ever recorded, beating the record of GRB 030329. [46]