Weather-tracking advances are revealing astonishing extremes of lightning

PHYSorg
Jul 31, 2025, 8:00 am85 pts
It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to Kansas City, setting a new world record.

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