July 24, 2022
The longest known lightning bolt stretched 477 miles from Texas to Mississippi in 2020.
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Does Ball Lightning Exist?
More than 200 years ago, the crew of the HMS Warren Hastings reported being attacked by giant balls of fire that descended from the sky. The mysterious fireballs reportedly set the ship on fire and killed several people. A century later, a “dazzling globe of electric fire” appeared in the cottage
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