A new world record lightning has been recorded! A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has established two new world records for the longest reported distance and the longest reported duration for a single lightning flash. The longest lightning flash duration is now set at more than 16 seconds in Argentina, while the longest distance is set at more than 700 km (nearly 450 miles) in Brasil!
just trying to imagine what a 450 mile lightening flash that isn't on one of the gas giants, but here on this rock, looks like. jeez!
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
comma comma comma chameleon!
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
That's terrifying.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
Feeling half dead today after being kept awake last night by what seemed to be endless thunderstorms.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:36 (one month ago) link
I didn't hear a thing!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:41 (one month ago) link
This is my favourite website - https://www.lightningmaps.org/
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:50 (one month ago) link
This was last night in SE England:
https://imgur.com/gG5M0jJ
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:39 (one month ago) link
This is why I never use imgur
http://imgur.com/gG5M0jJ
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:40 (one month ago) link
Ok, you just have to imagine it, while I crawl back to the mid-'00s and Flickr BBCodes
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:41 (one month ago) link
Yeah slept through last night's. Looked at the radar map and seems a bit unusual for the storms to drift from south-east to north west as they seem to be.
― nashwan, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:49 (one month ago) link
Thunder connoisseurs prefer Blitzortung
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:55 (one month ago) link