A jaw-dropping lightning megaflash that snaked across three states in the southern US just won a world record.
A megaflash is not your standard cloud-to-ground
On Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organization certified the flash as the furthest-traveling on record. It's about 37 miles longer than the previous record-holder, which streaked across southern Brazil in October 2018. "Any time there is thunder heard, it is time to reach a lightning-safe place," Ron Holle, a lightning specialist on the WMO Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes, which assessed the megaflashes, said in a statement.
Lightning strikes to humans are rare, but they do happen. Lightning kills about 49 people per year in the US and injures hundreds more, according to the
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