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On October 22, 2017, a colossal storm system was moving across the Great Plains of the United States when the night sky was torn open by ...
The extraordinary weather event in question was officially classified as a "megaflash," a specialized meteorological term for a horizonta...
For many decades, the scientific community believed that lightning was a strictly localized phenomenon with a maximum horizontal propagat...
While witnessing a megaflash is a stunning visual experience, these giant discharges present a severe and often underestimated danger to ...
Following the official certification of the record in 2025, the Secretary-General of the WMO emphasized the importance of this discovery ...
In the coming years, scientific research will focus on upgrading satellite detection systems to track megaflashes in real-time. Researche...
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