700-km Brazil 'megaflash' sets lightning record: UN
Geneva (AFP) June 25, 2020
The UN's weather agency announced Thursday the longest lightning bolt on record - a single flash in Brazil on October 31, 2018 that cut the sky across more than 700 kilometres. That is equivalent to the distance between Boston and Washington DC in the United States, or between London and Basel, Switzerland, the World Meteorological Organization said in a statement. WMO's committee of ex