World's longest lightning flash on record captured by NOAA satellites
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World's longest lightning flash on record captured by NOAA satellites
Shocking! Within this cluster of storms, a single lightning bolt captured by NOAA satellites was recently certified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as the world’s longest flash on record. The horizontal distance of the bolt stretched 477 miles, from the central coast of Texas to southern Mississippi, when it flashed
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