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US Lightning Flash Was Longest On Record At 515 Miles
Friday August 1, 2025. 05:30 AM , from Slashdot
![]() Since 2016, scientific advances in space-based mapping have allowed for lightning flashes to be measured over a broader space, allowing these long flashes to be recorded. This event was one of the first flashes to be documented using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest model of orbital satellite, known as a geostationary operational environmental satellite. The advances in technology have also allowed for the recording of the greatest duration for a single lightning flash. The record is a flash that lasted 17.1 seconds during a thunderstorm over Uruguay and northern Argentina on June 18, 2020. The findings have been published in the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/2247247/us-lightning-flash-was-longest-on-record-at-515-mil...
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