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Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...
A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, setting a new world record and pushing the boundaries of what scientists ...
NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...
Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...
“Our findings provide the first precise, quantitative explanation for how lightning initiates in nature,” Victor Pasko, the lead researcher in this study from the Penn State School of Electrical ...
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...
This new record clearly demonstrates the incredible power of the natural environment. Additionally, WMO assessment of ...
We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...
Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – a whopping 515-mile-long ...
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The World Meteorological Organization certified the record observed with advanced satellite technology from the National ...