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France strikes with longest-lasting lightning bolt

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AFP
Agence France-Presse

The UN World Meteorological Organization on Friday announced that France held the record for longest-lasting lightning bolt, with a flash on August 30, 2012 in the southeast of France lighting up the sky for a full 7.74 seconds.

The horizontal bolt travelled 200 kilometres (125 miles), the WMO’s Rapporteur of Weather & Climate Extremes, Randall Cerveny, told AFP.

“It was a “cloud-to-cloud” discharge,” Cerveny said.

France was bested, however, in the distance stakes by the US.

A lightning strike on June 20, 2007 in the state of Oklahoma covered a distance of 321 kilometres, the WMO said.

 

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