{"id":393741,"date":"2025-08-08T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=393741"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:14:46","slug":"astonishing-extreme-lightning-bolt-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=393741","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing Extreme Lightning Bolt Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"393746\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=393746\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQP_2wSwQFbkyX3ViP478lMFlL_kRnEigtB_-Dn-Qnqhu_LStPckHFTCF7k5nbQK928L0dgrkOvlm3lU8HMNVW8PSXiiJ-pNUq7odaANM2dkS1UUxth0JJvE3bkCJQeDp_VVCn5pqubk9HI9JP0CMOKcIMHFng-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1280\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQP_2wSwQFbkyX3ViP478lMFlL_kRnEigtB_-Dn-Qnqhu_LStPckHFTCF7k5nbQK928L0dgrkOvlm3lU8HMNVW8PSXiiJ-pNUq7odaANM2dkS1UUxth0JJvE3bkCJQeDp_VVCn5pqubk9HI9JP0CMOKcIMHFng-1.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQP_2wSwQFbkyX3ViP478lMFlL_kRnEigtB_-Dn-Qnqhu_LStPckHFTCF7k5nbQK928L0dgrkOvlm3lU8HMNVW8PSXiiJ-pNUq7odaANM2dkS1UUxth0JJvE3bkCJQeDp_VVCn5pqubk9HI9JP0CMOKcIMHFng-1.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/08\/06\/astonishing-extreme-lightning-bolt-recorded\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/wattsupwiththat\/\">Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif aligncenter\">\n\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-gif-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:100%\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/wskeTO7SvEonBTYmX2\" title=\"mega Flash Lightning\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>From the \u201cwe still don\u2019t know everything about weather and climate\u201d department and Arizona State University:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to Kansas City, setting a new world record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe call it mega flash lightning and we\u2019re just now figuring out the mechanics of how and why it occurs,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/10976\">Randy Cerveny<\/a>, an Arizona State University President\u2019s Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cerveny and colleagues used space-based instruments to measure the mega flash, which took place during a major thunderstorm in October 2017. Its astonishing horizontal reach surpasses by 38 miles the previous record of 477 miles recorded during an April 2020 storm in the southern U.S. The new record-setter went unnoticed until a re-examination of satellite observations from the 2017 storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is likely that even greater extremes still exist, and that we will be able to observe them as additional high-quality lightning measurements accumulate over time,\u201d said Cerveny, who serves as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\/activities\/world-weather-climate-extremes-archive\">rapporteur of weather and climate extremes<\/a>&nbsp;for the World Meteorological Organization, the weather agency of the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, lightning detection and measurement relied on ground-based networks of antennas that detect the radio signals emitted by lightning and then estimate location and travel speed based on the time it takes signals to reach other antenna stations in the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satellite-borne lightning detectors in orbit since 2017 have made it possible to continuously detect lightning and measure it accurately at continental-scale distances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur weather satellites carry very exacting lightning detection equipment that we can use document to the millisecond when a lightning flash starts and how far it travels,\u201d Cerveny said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parked in geostationary orbit, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency\u2019s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day. It is the first of four NOAA satellites equipped with geostationary lightning mappers, joined by similar satellites launched by Europe and China.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"613\" data-attachment-id=\"393744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=393744\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-130.png?fit=700%2C613&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,613\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-130.png?fit=700%2C613&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-130.png?resize=700%2C613&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Map showing the extent of a megaflash lightning event recorded by the GOES-16 satellite, indicating a distance of 515 miles across the Great Plains. Various colored dots represent cloud-to-ground lightning strikes.\" class=\"wp-image-393744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-130.png?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-130.png?resize=300%2C263&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GOES-16 satellite image recording a record-setting 515-mile lightning mega-flash during a storm in October 2017. Red circles mark positively charged branches of the lightning, and blue circles mark negatively charged branches.\u00a0Credit: World Meteorological Organization, American Meteorological Society<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAdding continuous measurements from geostationary orbit was a major advance,\u201d said Michael Peterson at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. \u201cWe are now at a point where most of the global megaflash hotspots are covered by a geostationary satellite, and data processing techniques have improved to properly represent flashes in the vast quantity of observational data at all scales.\u201d Peterson is first author of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/10.1175\/BAMS-D-25-0037.1\">a report<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<em>Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society<\/em>&nbsp;documenting the new lightning record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most lightning flashes are limited to less than 10 miles in reach. When a lightning bolt reaches beyond 60 miles (100 kilometers to be exact), it\u2019s considered a megaflash. Less than 1 percent of thunderstorms produce megaflash lightning, according to satellite observations&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2023EA002920\">analyzed by Peterson<\/a>. They arise from storms that are long-lived, typically brewing for 14 hours or more, and massive in size, covering an area comparable in square miles to the state of New Jersey. The average megaflash shoots off five to seven ground-striking branches from its horizontal path across the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While megaflashes that extend hundreds of miles are rare, it\u2019s not at all unusual for lightning to strike 10 or 15 miles from its storm-cloud origin, Cerveny said. And that adds to the danger. Cerveny said people don\u2019t realize how far lightning can reach from its parent thunderstorm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lightning kills 20 to 30 people each year in the U.S. and injures hundreds more. 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