Most Intense Lightning EVER Recorded

Folks are still studying the eruption that happened last year, and the extremes in weather and nature continue coming on a daily basis.  In this one we see both words;  EVER and NEVER.  The earth continues to groan for its redemption and the people of earth continue to reject the awesome power of God and instead choose to worship Mother Nature using the religion of Climate Change.

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The eruption produced 2,600 flashes per minute at peak intensity. Scientists used the lightning to peer into the ash cloud, teasing out new details of the eruption’s timeline.

• The January 15 eruption lasted at least 11 hours, several hours longer than previously known
• The plume produced the highest-altitude lightning flashes ever measured, 20 to 30 kilometers (12 to 19 miles) above sea level
• Lightning “surfed” giant waves that rippled through volcanic plume
• Lightning data reveal previously unknown phases of the eruption, inform future volcanic hazard monitoring

The January 15, 2022, eruption of Hunga Volcano in Tonga continues to break records. According to a new study, the eruption created a “supercharged” thunderstorm that produced the most intense lightning ever recorded. There were nearly 200,000 lightning flashes in the volcanic plume throughout the eruption, peaking at more than 2,600 flashes every minute, the researchers found.

When the submarine volcano erupted in the southern Pacific Ocean, it generated a plume of ash, water, and magmatic gas at least 58 kilometers (36 miles) high. The towering plume gave scientists useful information about the scale of the eruption, but it also obscured the vent from satellite view, making it more difficult to track changes in the eruption as it progressed.

“This eruption triggered a supercharged thunderstorm, the likes of which we’ve never seen,” said Alexa Van Eaton, a volcanologist at the United States Geological Survey who led the study. “These findings demonstrate a new tool we have to monitor volcanoes at the speed of light and help the USGS’s role to inform ash hazard advisories to aircraft.”

 https://scitechdaily.com/200000-lightning-flashes-tongas-hunga-eruption-produced-the-most-intense-lightning-ever-recorded/