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This Post story is from this article. There's other nice images and stuff in the real source here: New WMO Certified Megaflash Lightning Extremes for Flash Dis

This Post story is from this article. There's other nice images and stuff in the real source here: New WMO Certified Megaflash Lightning Extremes for Flash Distance and Duration Recorded from Space https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/5/BAMS-D-21-0254.1.xml?rskey=TKAeaX&result=1 https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/5/BAMS-D...

lnwlebjel 4y ago
"the longest WMO-recognized lightning flash is the single stratiform flash that covered a horizontal distance of 768 ± 8 km (467.2 ± 5 mi) across parts of the southern United States on 29 April 2020. The greatest WMO-recognized duration for a single lightning flash is 17.102 ± 0.002 s from the flash that developed continuously through the stratiform region of a thunderstorm over Uruguay and northern Argentina on 18 June 2020" Wow!
pimlottc 4y ago
This is great but unfortunately it's not very mobile friendly, the WP article is better for that.
- petre 4y ago
  Also paywalled so pretty much useless to anyone w/o an account.
  - LukeShu 4y ago
    I don't have an account and I don't see a paywall on mobile or on desktop.
- sbr464 4y ago
  Reduce the zoom/font size and it works better.