Brazil “Megaflash” lightning units international report.

From PHYS.ORG

The UN’s climate company introduced Thursday the longest lightning bolt on report—a unmarried flash in Brazil on October 31, 2018 that reduce the sky throughout greater than 700 kilometers.

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I have in mind, on a power to Phoenix as a young person, lightning bolts that took a number of seconds to commute around the horizon. I believed on the time they had been loads of miles lengthy. I used to be almost certainly proper. I by no means researched it — d’oh!