Lightning. It avoids the ocean, but likes Florida. It's likely to strike in the Himalayas and even more so in central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the North or South Poles. These are ...

New Satellite Maps Reveal Where In The World Lightning Strikes Date: January 29, 2002 Source: NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Summary: Lightning. It avoids the ocean, but likes Florida.

Over the past seven years, the United States as a whole averaged about 17.8 lightning strikes per square kilometer per year, according to a lightning density map published by Vaisala, a company ...

Last year, Holzworth and his colleagues surveyed two billion lightning strikes recorded between 2010 and 2018 and mapped out 8,000 intense superbolts, the vast majority of which hit the ocean.

Last year the world recorded over 2.2 billion lightning strikes, ... This is largely due to its location in the Pacific Ocean ...

Where lightning strikes: States with the highest lightning density. Last year, there were more lightning strikes in Texas overall last year, but Florida frequently has the highest lightning strike ...

Gulf Coast states Florida and Mississippi had the most lightning 'ground strikes.' But Tornado Alley states like Oklahoma and Arkansas also faced severe lightning storms ...

Locally, Polk County has the highest lightning density, with 147.3 strikes per square kilometer last year. Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, Manatee, Sarasota, Hardee, DeSoto, and Highlands counties ...

From 2006 through 2021, lightning strikes killed 444 people in the U.S., averaging about 28 fatalities per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How does lightning form?