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Lightning bolt sets new world record

‘Megaflash’ lightning bolt traveled over 500 miles, setting a new record, study says

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles.

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Scientists discovered a previously unknown lightning strike that was a record 515 miles long

Scientists have revealed that a lightning bolt that occurred over a swath of the southern U.S. in 2017 was the single longest lightning strike ever recorded. At 515 miles long, the flash was the equivalent distance from Boston to the Outer Banks of North Carolina,

Popular Science · 8h

A record-breaking lightning bolt just ‘shocked’ meteorologists

We call it megaflash lightning and we’re just now figuring out the mechanics of how and why it occurs,” study co-author and Arizona State University climatologist Randy Cerveny said in a statement . The majority of lightning flashes reach less than 10 miles.

World’s longest lightning strike was 500 miles across

The lightning event spread from Eastern Texas to the outskirts of Kansas City, a distance that would take nine hours by car ...

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Lightning strike kills one, injures more than a dozen others at New Jersey archery range

At least one person was killed and 13 others, including a 7-year-old, were injured in a lightning strike at an outdoor ...

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