Explanation:
Watch a huge lightning storm move across the eastern USA.
The huge storm caused much damage and unfortunately some loss of life for people
in its path.
Seen from space, the
lightning is seen as momentary flashes in the featured
time-lapse video
recorded last month by the
Geostationary
Lightning Mapper (GLM) aboard the
GOES-16 satellite.
The outline of
North America
is most evident during the day, while the bright
lightning strikes
are most evident at night.
Inspection of the video shows that much of the
lightning occurred
at the leading edge of the huge tail of the swirling storm.
Because lightning
frequently precedes a storm's most violent impact,
lightning data from
GLM
holds promise to help reduce the harm to humans from future storms.
