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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.
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 ...
Longest lightning bolt: 768 km (477 mi) on 29 April 2020 in the southern United States. [ 326 ] Longest duration for a single lightning flash : 17.1 seconds on 18 June 2020 in Uruguay and northern Argentina .
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 flash of a lightning strike and resulting thunder occur at roughly the same time. But light travels 300,000 km/sec, almost a million times the speed of sound. Sound travels at the slower speed of about 340 m/sec (depending on the temperature), so the flash of lightning is seen before thunder is heard. A method to determine the distance ...
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 ...
Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was an American park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 And 1977, Sullivan was claimed to have been struck by lightning on seven occasions, surviving all of them.