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A massive lightning ‘megaflash’ set a world record — it stretched for a whopping 515 miles
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, turned out to be a staggering 515 miles long. A new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society documented the new lightning record, which beat the previous title holder, a 477-mile bolt from April 2020.
Some lightning strikes are much more powerful than others and can often be the culprit behind some of Colorado's wildfires.
Severe storms in Acadiana led to a lightning strike that destroyed a church in St. Mary Parish. The historic St. John the ...
The Tongue River Fire Department responded to a reported lightning strike near a residence at 294 Brook Street in Ranchester ...
A Wednesday lightning strike on the St. John Baptist Church in the Four Corners community in St. Mary Parish led to the ...
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Heat and lightning spark dozens of new fires in B.C., amid evacuations and alerts
There's been a surge in wildfire activity in British Columbia associated with this week's high temperatures and thousands of lightning strikes, with dozens of new fires sparked in the past day.
Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...
It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to ...
After a thunderstorm, holdover lightning fires can smolder for weeks. With a series of wet thunderstorms, it can take several days of dry and warm weather for these fires to become visible, the ...
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