{"id":226541,"date":"2025-12-05T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/lightning-channels-reveal-hidden-bursts-lateral-negative-re-discharges-observed-for-first-time"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:33:07","slug":"lightning-channels-reveal-hidden-bursts-lateral-negative-re-discharges-observed-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/lightning-channels-reveal-hidden-bursts-lateral-negative-re-discharges-observed-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Lightning channels reveal hidden bursts: Lateral negative re-discharges observed for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lightning-channels-reveal-hidden-bursts-lateral-negative-re-discharges-observed-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered the first observational evidence of lateral negative re-discharges occurring on negative leader channels. Published recently in <i>Geophysical Research Letters<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2025GL117167\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> offer new insights into how lightning channels remain electrically active and how their structures evolve before and after a return stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this research, negative-polarity lateral breakdowns had only been observed near the tips of positive leaders\u2014never documented along negative leader channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered the first observational evidence of lateral negative re-discharges occurring on negative leader channels. Published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, the findings offer new insights into how lightning channels remain electrically active and how their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}