{"id":35200,"date":"2022-02-01T22:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T04:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35200"},"modified":"2022-02-01T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T04:01:43","slug":"and-that-raises-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/02\/01\/and-that-raises-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"And That Raises A Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2022\/01\/31\/world-record-lightning-megaflash-us\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F35ea960%2F61f96a5d9d2fda14d7172da2%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F41%2F72%2F61f96a5d9d2fda14d7172da2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on that mysterious phenomenon known as <em>extreme lightning<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The World Meteorological Organization announced on Monday that it had confirmed two new mind-blowing lightning \u201cmegaflash\u201d records. The findings, which come after careful data-checking and rigorous certification processes, include one record event that occurred over the Lower 48 states.<\/p>\n<p>On April 29, 2020, a sprawling mass of strong to severe thunderstorms produced a 477.2-mile-long lightning strike over the southern United States. It stretched from near Houston to southeast Mississippi, a distance equivalent to that between Columbus, Ohio, and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The record beats out a 440-mile-long megaflash that occurred over southern Brazil on Halloween of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The WMO also identified a new world record for the long-lasting lightning flash. It lit up the skies over Uruguay and northern Argentina for 17.1 seconds on June 18, 2020, surpassing a 16.73-second flash recorded over northern Argentina on March 4, 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that question would be: are these phenomena sensitive to climate change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo has a report on that mysterious phenomenon known as extreme lightning: The World Meteorological Organization announced on Monday that it had confirmed two new mind-blowing lightning \u201cmegaflash\u201d records. The findings, which come after careful data-checking and rigorous certification processes, include one record event that occurred over the Lower 48 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/02\/01\/and-that-raises-a-question\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35201,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35200\/revisions\/35201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}