ELECTRIC MARATHON

On 22 October, a horizontal lightning flash passed about 250 miles (400km) across the plains from Oklahoma to Missouri. The extraordinary phenomenon was caught on camera by a new satellite, GOES-16, equipped with a special lightning detector. If confirmed, this flash easily beats the previous world record for a single horizontal lightning flash – 199.5 miles ((321km) across Oklahoma on 20 June 2007. Times, 11 Nov 2017.