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Longest confirmed fulgurite
Record
5 m
16 ft
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What to remember
Five metres long: that is the length of the longest confirmed fulgurite ever found.
It is one of the lightning records, an emerging field, since the technology for measuring lightning is advancing rapidly. Another is the longest horizontal lightning bolt, 829 km in 2020 over Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “Lightning records” (revision used 1369640606). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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