World's longest lightning flash on record captured by NOAA …
2020年4月9日 · Shocking! Within this cluster of storms, a single lightning bolt captured by NOAA satellites was recently certified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as the world’s longest flash on record. The horizontal distance of the bolt stretched 477 miles, from the central coast of Texas to southern Mississippi, when it flashed
Megaflash: Longest lightning flash ever breaks record
2022年2月14日 · The highest concentration of lightning – Catatumbo, Venezuela receives almost 250 lightning flashes per square kilometre each year. The most strokes in a lightning flash – 26 pulses in a single flash, in a cloud-to-ground flash in New Mexico, 1962.
The science of 'superbolts,' the world's strongest lightning strikes
2023年10月6日 · They're 1,000 times stronger and brighter than average lightning, and scientists have finally found a cause of these dramatic flashes of electricity. A lightning bolt strikes the sea near...
Lightning: The regions of the world with the most lightning
Lake Maracaibo is the region with the most lightning in the world, with 233 lightning strikes per km2 per year. Over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, the largest inland waterbody in South America, a unique natural spectacle can be seen at night: Lightning illuminates the tropical darkness on up to 260 nights a year, especially at the spot where the ...
WMO certifies two megaflash lightning records
Direct strike: 21 people killed by a single flash of lightning as they huddled for safety in a hut in Zimbabwe in 1975. Indirect strike: 469 people killed in Dronka Egypt when lightning struck a set of oil tanks, causing burning oil to flood the town in 1994.
Almost 500-mile-long lightning bolt crossed three US states - BBC
2022年2月1日 · An almost 500-mile long bolt of lightning that lit up the sky across three US states has set a new world record for longest flash, scientists have confirmed. The bolt in 2020, extended a total...
Record-Breaking Lightning Strikes Force Redefinition of the …
2016年9月19日 · Record-Breaking Lightning Strikes Force Redefinition of the Thunderbolt. A 199.5-mile-long streak captured the title for world’s longest and a 7.74-second blast won world’s brightest
Megaflash: Longest lightning strike record certified - AccuWeather
2022年2月1日 · Scientists at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed the 2019 south-central U.S. "megaflash," a name given to lightning discharges that reach hundreds of kilometers in length, as...
Lightning flash measuring 768 kilometres is the longest ever …
2022年2月1日 · Two record-breaking lightning flashes occurred in 2020: one with a length of 768 kilometres is the longest ever recorded, while another with a duration of 17 seconds is the longest-lasting flash...
A 440-mile-long "Megaflash" Enters the Record Books as the …
2020年7月20日 · It happened on Halloween of 2018, when a system of massive thunderstorms boiled up over southern Brazil and spawned a single bolt stretching across 440 miles, from the Atlantic coast all the way into Argentina. Satellite image showing the record extent of a lightning flash over Brazil October 31, 2018. (Source: World Meteorological Organization)