A new class of extreme compact storms that were previously under-appreciated showed that densest lightning occur over the ocean, not land.
Your account is not active. We have sent an email to the address you provided with an activation link. Check your inbox, and click on the link to activate your account.I guess I’m not the only one obsessed with lightning. It is definitely one of nature’s most recurrent and common spectacles.
This thunderstorm complex was found by the World Meteorological Organization to be the longest flash on record that covered a horizontal distance of 477 milesRare “superbolts,” with flashes 100 or 1,000 times brighter, are more likely to hit the ocean and such lightning is more powerful than a regular bolt. Marine scientist“We were surprised.
“Superbolts, even though they’re only a very, very tiny percentage of all lightning, they’re a magnificent phenomenon,” saidStorms with the highest density of flashes occur over the ocean, mostly through the Gulf of Mexico and east of South Africa, but what we’ve found out here is a big piece of the puzzle,” Efraim said.
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