{"id":24259,"date":"2022-02-01T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=24259"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T11:02:12","slug":"wmo-certifies-two-megaflash-lightning-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/24259","title":{"rendered":"WMO certifies two Megaflash lightning records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, a bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Meteorological Organization, the single flash extended 477.2 miles (768 kilometers) across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in 29 April 2020, the World Meteorological Organization said Monday. This is the same as the distance between London (UK) and Hamburg (Germany). That beat the old record set in 2018 in Brazil of 440.6 miles (709 kilometers).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO-1-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO-1-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO-1-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO-1.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: World Meteorological Organization<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also in 18 June 2020, a single lightning flash over Uruguay and northern Argentina lasted 17.1 seconds, nipping the old time record of 16.7 seconds. The previous record was also over northern Argentina.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24260\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WMO.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: World Meteorological Organization<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WMO has verified 2 new world records for a\u26a1\ufe0flightning  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/megaflash?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#megaflash<\/a> <br \/>Longest distance single flash of 768 km (477.2 miles) across southern <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USA<\/a>  &#8211;  60 kilometres MORE than old record<br \/>Greatest duration of 17.102 seconds over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Uruguay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Uruguay<\/a> and northern <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Argentina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Argentina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6AzyzTgMIO\">https:\/\/t.co\/6AzyzTgMIO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VqUgxEDHB2\">pic.twitter.com\/VqUgxEDHB2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; World Meteorological Organization (@WMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMO\/status\/1488416857631727616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the AP news, normally lightning doesn\u2019t stretch farther than 10 miles and lasts less than a second, said Arizona State University\u2019s Randall Cerveny, who is the chief of records confirmation for the meteorological organization.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese two lightning flash records are absolutely extraordinary,\u201d Cerveny said in an email.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>These records, which are not linked to climate change, were spotted and confirmed thanks to new satellite tracking technology. Both regions are two of the few places in the world prone to the type of intense storms that can produce what are called \u201cmega flashes, Cerveny said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: According to the Associated Press, a bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the single flash extended 477.2 miles (768 kilometers) across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in 29 April 2020, the World Meteorological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24277,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions\/24277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}