While you might be most familiar with cloud-to-ground lightning, other types of lightning are confined to the sky.
The storm eventually became a Category 5 hurricane thatdid major damage across Florida.
In a statement, NOAA said the imagery and data collected so far is preliminary.
Intense eyewall lightning can be seen at the core of Hurricane Milton as it formed.© Screengrab via NOAA
GOES-East orbits over the 75th Meridian West, which is east of GOES-Wests orbit over the 132nd Meridian West.
Smack dab between the two is the100th Meridian, where the great plains begin.
It all makes sense.
Correction: An earlier headline described the satellite as belonging to NASA.
It actually belongs to NOAA.
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