A recording or measurement of lightning and thunderstorm activity, created by specialized instruments that detect electrical discharges.
From Greek 'keraunos' (lightning) + '-gram' (a recording), created in the 19th century when scientists developed tools to measure storm electricity.
The first ceraunograms proved something shocking: lightning actually travels upward from the ground to the clouds, not downward—a discovery that completely changed how we understood electricity.
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