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GOES-16 was the first spacecraft to carry a lightning mapper in geostationary orbit. The GLM can detect both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning during daytime and nighttime, complementing land-based lightning detection. GLM's sensitivity results in a detection rate of 70–90% of all lightning strikes in its viewing area.
GOES-18. GOES-18 (designated pre-launch as GOES-T) is the third of the "GOES-R Series", the current generation of weather satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The current and next satellites of the Series ( GOES-16, GOES-17, GOES-18, and GOES-U) will extend the availability of the Geostationary ...
Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning, and on average makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. A bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear, but the turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground. They are commonly referred to ...
The lightning strike was the first to result in a fatality in Oklahoma since 2012, ... Based on the last 10 years, the U.S. averages about 16 lightning fatalities through Aug. 10 each year.
A 16-year-old girl has died after she was struck by lightning while hunting with her father in Florida, officials say. Baylee Holbrook and her father had been hunting on Tuesday when lightning ...
You’re safer being indoors. Avoid going outdoors unless the situation absolutely calls for it. Avoid electrical equipment. If a storm is imminent, avoid using all electrical equipment, including ...
Upper-atmospheric lightning is believed to be electrically induced forms of luminous plasma. The preferred usage is transient luminous event ( TLE ), because the various types of electrical-discharge phenomena in the upper atmosphere lack several characteristics of the more familiar tropospheric lightning. Transient luminous events have also ...
The presence of multiple bolts shows this is a time-exposure photograph. A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which the electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.