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It’s not a single lightning event. It’s all the different lightning strikes throughout the storm.

• adhesive_wombat 4y ago
  Seems hard to conclude the caption from that image, then. It's like looking at a long exposure of a kid waving a sparkler and estimating that the sparkler is 6 feet long. I don't doubt there was a megaflash, but I don't think that image actually demonstrates it fully.
  • lazyier 4y ago
    That isn't a timelapse photo. It's a picture of actual lightening. It is something that actually lasts for a long time. It must of been nuts to the people under it. Just continuous thunder for an extended period of time.
    • adhesive_wombat 4y ago
      The animation, not the static image, covers clouds moving from North Texas to South Texas. That must cover hours, and each frame seems to be a merge between many flashes. The static image below that, of the record duration flash from South America, shows what does look like a single dendritic lightning flash.
      • jagged-chisel 4y ago
        I assume one of those frames includes the megaflash. But they didn’t tell us which.