A news item involving 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 15 January 2022.
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I am questioning the accuracy of the paragraph about number of lightning flashes observed during the eruption:
From 14 to 15 January 2022, tens of thousands of lightning flashes occurred. Between 05:00 and 06:00 UTC on 15 January 2022, 200,000 flashes were recorded.
The two sources given are National Geographic and a Tweet. The Twitter source claims a peak of 200,000 flashes per hour, and cumulative flashes over 11 hours totaling nearly four million. I can't read the whole NG article because it is paywalled, but from I did see, the peak rate was 5-6,000 per minute, which is compatible with the Tweet. However, a just published study (open access) covered by SciTechDaily says, The eruption produced just over 192,000 flashes (made up of nearly 500,000 electrical pulses), peaking at 2,615 flashes per minute. I have very little background on this topic, so I'm putting this here for any other editors deeper into the material to have a look at.
The factoid revealed in the study that drew me here is: Our analysis demonstrates that the 15 January eruption produced 2,615 flashes min−1 at its peak intensity (04:53), representing the most intense electrical storm ever detected by global networks (Table S3 in Supporting Information S1). This peak lightning rate is significantly higher than the next most lightning-rich case study in our analysis (cf. 993 flashes min−1, Table S3 in Supporting Information S1). but I wouldn't want to put it in the article unless the discrepancies I've noted are resolved. Xan747 (talk) 19:27, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
