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Blizzards produce one amongst earth's finest intense and interesting influences: gigantic streaks of illumination that divide the heavens, shooting enormous quantities of charge into the external environment and shattering down the earth once it hits it.

One of the most powerful and fascinating forces of nature is born of storms: great cracks of light that part the sky, flicking vast amounts of electricity into the surrounding atmosphere, cracking into the ground whenever it reaches it.

A detailed 3D study of a massive electrical discharge that rose 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm has provided new information about an elusive atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets. The Oklahoma discharge was the most...

Researchers created a three-dimensional map of the Oklahoma jet, the most powerful gigantic jet studied yet, with 100 times more electrical charge than a regular lightning bolt.

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Two new world records for megaflashes of lightning have been recorded by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), including one for longest distance of a singular flash in North America and

A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 769 kilometres across three US states in 2020 or equivalent to the distance between London and the German city of Hamburg has been declared as the longest recorded single flash by the WMO.

Extreme weather: ‘Megaflash’ lightning records certified by WMO

Geneva, 1st February 2022 (WMO) – The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has established two new world records for megaflashes of lightning in