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Last year's eruption produced a raging storm at unprecedented altitudes, with 2,600 lightning flashes per minute at its peak

The plume from the 2022 eruption spawned flashes of lightning that started 20 to 30 kilometers above sea level.

The January 15, 2022, eruption of Hunga Volcano in Tonga continues to break records. According to a new study, the eruption created a “supercharged” thunderstorm that produced the most intense lightning ever recorded. There were nearly 200,000 lightning flashes in the volcanic plume throughout the eruption, peaking at more than 2,600 flashes every minute, the researchers found.

As candlepin alleys slowly disappear in Maine, diehard fans and some new to the sport hope to keep the challenging, unique brand of bowling around. 'I love this game because you cannot conquer it.'

Posted on 6239 Earth Networks, the global leader in weather and lightning monitoring and alerting, today released its 2020 U.S. Lightning Report. During 2020, Earth Networks detected 441,211,344 in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning pulses within the continental U.S., a decrease of 15% from 2019. Over 31.5 million of those pulses were cloud-to-ground, representing 7% of all lightning activity. The lightning activity detailed in the ...