Shocking Stats About Lightning

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The World Meteorological Organization’s Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes recently certified a new record: the longest lightning strike ever measured. Jeff and Anthony discuss the astonishing phenomenon, and dive into a whole host of surprising lightning-based statistics.

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0:00.0	This is why I always enjoy talking to you, Anthony, because it makes me feel less alone.
0:19.8	Yeah, that too.
0:21.6	This is we have concerns.
0:23.2	Hi, Jeff Kanata.
0:24.5	Hi, Anthony Carbone.
0:25.9	Hello, concerned citizens.
0:28.3	Anthony, I want to talk about a phenomenon that for most of my life,
0:34.2	I just didn't even really pay attention to.
0:36.8	But now that I live here in Colorado, it's become much more front and center in my daily,
0:44.0	certainly in the summer months, my daily life.
0:46.7	Are you worried about the, are you worried about that because of the altitude,
0:50.4	time passes faster for you just a little bit.
0:53.0	And so your life is even shorter than it was.
0:56.0	Thank you. Yes. That's what constantly thinking about. I moved higher and therefore, yeah,
1:02.7	because we know with the clocks, they measured the clocks, the higher you put a clock.
1:06.1	That's right. That's just relativity, dude. You're dying quicker and quicker every day.
1:10.0	It's true. You know, I just wanted to get it over with. That's why I came here. That's why relativity, dude. You're dying quicker and quicker every day. It's true. You know, I just wanted to get it over with.
1:12.3	That's why I came here.
1:13.7	That's why people climb Everest.
1:15.4	Just get it over with.
1:16.7	To just get it over with.
1:17.7	It's like, why do we climb a mountain?
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