Flash-tastic!
- By AMS Staff
- Nov 20, 2023
Photo Credit: iStock.com/Slavica
2,615 per minute—The peak number of lightning flashes in the volcanic plume during the eruption of the Hunga Volcano in Tonga in January of 2022, which a recent study calls “the most intense lightning rates ever documented in Earth's atmosphere.”
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