New world records for megaflashes of lightning

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has certified two new world records for megaflashes of lightning:
- The longest single flash that covered a horizontal distance of 768 ± 8 km (477.2 ± 5 miles) across parts of the southern United States on 29 April 2020.
- The greatest duration for a single lightning flash of 17.102 ± 0.002 seconds from the flash that developed continuously through a thunderstorm over Uruguay and northern Argentina on 18 June 2020.
Credit:
World Meteorological Organization
Los Alamos National Laboratory
New WMO Certified Megaflash Lightning Extremes for Flash Distance (768 km) and Duration (17.01 seconds) Recorded from Space
Michael J. Peterson, Timothy J. Lang, Timothy Logan, Cheong Wee Kiong, Morne Gijben, Ron Holle, Ivana Kolmasova, Martino Marisaldi, Joan Montanya, Sunil D. Pawar, Daile Zhang, Manola Brunet, and Randall S. Cerveny
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0254.1
Music: “Lightning Bugs by Geographer” courtesy of YouTube Audio Library