{"id":1012,"date":"2016-09-21T20:44:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T01:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2016-10-02T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:05:22","slug":"were-going-to-need-new-idioms-for-this-record-breaking-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Going to Need New Idioms for This: Record-Breaking Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/367643\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1e\/Cloud_to_cloud_lightning_strike.jpg\/320px-Cloud_to_cloud_lightning_strike.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud-to-cloud lighting. \" width=\"243\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cloud-to-cloud lighting. Photo by Fir0002 \/ Flagstaffotos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 200-mile lightning flash and another flash lasting nearly eight seconds have redefined experts\u2019 notions of what is possible for such events.<\/p>\n<p>The new data prompted a World Meteorological Organization committee to recommend revising the definition of lightning discharges.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/367643\" target=\"_blank\">Record-Breaking Lightning Flashes Help Change Definition Of Lightning Events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 200-mile lightning flash and another flash lasting nearly eight seconds have redefined experts\u2019 notions of what is possible for such events. The new data prompted a World Meteorological Organization committee to recommend revising the definition of lightning discharges. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk: Record-Breaking Lightning Flashes Help Change Definition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re Going to Need New Idioms for This: Record-Breaking Lightning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,54,50,74,3,13],"tags":[1157,1155,966,1158,25,1154,1156],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-electromagnetism","category-geoscience","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-american-meteorological-society","tag-france","tag-lightning","tag-lightning-mapping-array","tag-nature","tag-oklahoma","tag-world-meteorological-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}