3410 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/02/01/2145246/almost-500-mile-long-lightning-bolt-crossed-three-us-states?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feedAn almost 500-mile long bolt of lightning that lit up the sky across three US states has set a new world record for longest flash , scientists have confirmed. The BBC reports: The lightning bolt, extended a total of 477.2 miles (768 km) and spread across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The previous record was 440.2022-02-02T08:26+0100slashdot-47b0a32cee489434750c4bfb745fc46320220202082600https://news.yahoo.com/almost-500-mile-long-lightning-164024024.htmlAn almost 500-mile long bolt of lightning that lit up the sky across three US states has set a new world record for longest flash, scientists have confirmed. The bolt in 2020, extended a total of 477.2 miles (768 km) and spread across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The previous record was 440.6 miles (709 km) and recorded in Brazil in 2018.2022-02-02T04:34+0100yahoo-sg-cea740aea7089b0d0d2d1f1858d88af820220202043400https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/record-setting-lightning-megaflash-in-southeast-certified-by-world-meteorological-group.htmlBy Leigh Morgan A single lightning flash in April 2020 was recently certified by the World Meteorological Organization as the world’s longest on record with a distance of 477 miles. The WMO in a news release said the single flash covered parts of the southern U.S. on April 29, 2020.2022-02-01T21:38+0100al-10369bd0e1b03dc78560740b6ca85e6c20220201213800https://gizmodo.com/torrential-rains-in-brazil-and-haiti-displace-thousands-1848460411Events like those in Haiti and Brazil are only expected to become more common around the world, including in the United States. Both Haiti and Brazil weathered torrential rains earlier this week. The rain caused floods in the , killing at least 3 people and displacing thousands of families.2022-02-01T19:26+0100gizmodo-943d4fda9deeffe8940fc7ae2a2bf57720220201192600