A single lightning flash on 29 April 2020 stretched 768 kilometres across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas in 7.39 seconds, a bolt long enough to reach from London to Hamburg along a single channel of superheated plasma five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

On 29 April 2020, a single lightning flash stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in 7.39 seconds — a bolt long enough to reach from London to Berlin, traced by NOAA's GOES-16 satellite from geostationary orbit. The post A single lightning flash on 29 April 2020 stretched 768 kilometres across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas in 7.39 seconds, a bolt long enough to reach…