World's longest lightning strike recorded in the US

(KXAN) — One of the greatest creations in recent years when it comes to meteorology has been the launch of the GOES-16 and GOES-17.GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. GOES-16 and GOES-17 launched in 2016 and 2018 respectively, and have been monitoring our skies ever since with some of the most sophisticated tools.One of them in particular, the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on GOES-16 is a single-channel, near-infrared optical transient detector that ca