Marilyn's Photos - August 3rd, 2025 - Megaflash - what is it?
A megaflash - what is it?
a) big news from the White House in the middle of regular news from the White House b) misspelling of magaflash - news from MAGA in the middle of regular news from the White House c) lightning strike that's really big
The picture below is from the Weather Network. It is the longest recorded lightning bolt. It is over 800 km long. It is called a megaflash. That happened in 2017 and scientists were able to measure it with new technology. The margin of error is plus or minus 8 km.
To be a megaflash, it has to be more than 100 km long. I guess they have been measuring them for quite a while.
Here is another previously accepted WMO lightning extreme:
The greatest duration for a single lightning flash of 17.102 ± 0.002 seconds during a thunderstorm over Uruguay and northern Argentina on 18 June 2020.
The other extremes are about number of people killed by a single flash. Yuk!
I have a maintained folders of my images that I've added to the photo of the day or put into the websites Fine Art America and Redbubble. That means I can easily look through them. Here's a hop through the seasons - Summer at the Buffalo Garden Walk (missed this year with our self-imposed travel ban), Autumn in the Niagara vineyards, and Winter in the RBG garden.
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