770-Kilometer Lightning In 2020 Declared Longest Single Bolt

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.

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