The longest lightning record was registered – | Iranian and world news

Lightning is one of the most powerful natural events on earth, according to the Daily Mail. Researchers have now recorded the longest lightning in history. This record -breaking cloud took place during a huge rampage in October.

This natural event extends from East Texas to Kansas City (2 miles), which is 2 miles longer than the previous record. To show the extent of the event, it can be said that the lightning extension is twice the length of the Grand Canyon or the equivalent of the distance between Paris and Venice.

Researchers at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) hope this discovery will show them how much lightning will extend its origin.

“Lightning is both amazing and dangerous, as it takes many lives around the world every year, which is why it is one of the top priorities of the International Program for Early Alerts,” says Celest Salo, secretary -general of the World Meteorological Organization. These discoveries raise important concerns about public security, as electric clouds can create sparks that move too far. This has a great impact on aircraft and may even cause forest fires.

For many years of lightning and measuring it relied on ground stations. But lightning satellite detectors, which are in the Earth’s orbit for the past 5, make it possible to track and measure the event on continental distances.

Michael Jay Peterson, a senior author of the longest lightning research, says: “It is difficult to investigate the utmost capabilities of lightning, because the boundaries of what we can see practically.” In addition, the continuous measurement of thunderstorms from the fixed Earth’s orbit was a great progress. We are now at the point where most of the active lightning spots around the world are covered by earthly satellites, and data processing methods have been so advanced that they can record the sparks in large volumes of observation data. Over time and increased data, we will be able to see even the rarest types of thunderstorms on earth and examine the widespread impact of lightning on society.