Nature is Dangerous
…scientists have just announced new world records for distance and duration of single lightning flashes… The distance champ… leapt to life just south of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the middle of a long line of midafternoon thunderstorms on 20 June 2007 and then shot westward nearly to the Texas border—a distance of …almost 200 miles… In addition to its cloud-to-cloud travels, the discharge also sent at least 13 bolts down to the ground,…
News crews in Oklahoma captured a tornado forming as severe weather rolled through that state. [video]
A major spring blizzard plodding eastward over the Southern Plains shut down major highways Friday and paralyzed the region as residents braced for up to a foot of snow, freezing 45-mph winds and massive snowdrifts.