A new world record has been set for the longest-ever lightning flash recorded, which happened nearly seven years ago.

Where was the lightning flash captured?

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A 515-mile lighting streak , which was spotted from space, lit up the skies from eastern Texas through Missouri in October 2017, which the World Meteorological Organization explains is the equivalent to the distance between Paris and Venice in Europe.

This weather event took place during a thunderstorm system called a Mesoscale Convective System , which was moving along the Gulf Coast ahead of a frontal boundary, according to FOX Weather.

The WMO’s Committee on Weather Climate Extremes, which tracks official records of global hemispheric and regional weather events, identified the record-setting lightn

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