A single lightning phenomenon spans nearly 500 miles across three US states. and it is classified as the longest in the world.

World Meteorologicalxo autoOrganization (WMO) announced on Tuesday (Feb 1) it has endorsed two new world records for various lightning events. along the precarious point in both North America and South America.

Data from the World Meteorological Organization's Climate and Climate Commission. It was found that on April 29, 2020, a single lightning strike spanned 477 miles (about 767 km) above the skies of Texas. Louisiana and Mississippi Recorded as the longest single lightning strike in the world.

This megaflash is equivalent to the distance between New York City and Columbus, Ohio, and it breaks the previous record of 440.6 miles (about 709 kilometers) set in Brazil in 2018.

Also in 2020, a single lightning strike is over the skies in Uruguay and northern Argentina. It lasted 17.1 seconds, breaking the previous world record of 16.7 seconds.

Randolph Curveney, the World Meteorological Organization's head of confirmation records, said: Normal lightning is usually no longer than 10 miles (16 kilometers) in length and lasts less than a second. It is a very unusual phenomenon.”

However, he stated that it was cloud-to-cloud lightning. thousands of feet above the ground So no one was harmed. Curveney said

Curveney further stated that incident not related to global warming And it was observed and confirmed via new satellites equipped with weather tracking technology.