Professor Randall Cerveny is a colleague that I look to when these records are revealed. The professor at Arizona State University serves as chief rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes for WMO. I am always interested in the “so what” factor when these types of records are announced. For a self-proclaimed weather geek like me, it is just really cool, but Cerveny offers additional insight.
We are in the glory days of lightning observations so it will not be surprising if other “mind-boggling” extremes are revealed. Our lightning observation capabilities now include lightning mapping arrays and space-born lightning mappers aboard satellites operated by U.S., European, and Chinese agencies. Committee member Michael J. Peterson is with the Space and Remote Sensing Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory and served as the lead author on the report.
Crazy!
drastichs Interesting
Astonishing!
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I remember a single lightning flash crossing all 50 states in 2016. And it’s coming back again later this year. TrumpLandslideVictory2020