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 ...

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

Prior to this study, estimates for US lightning strikes were rough and inconsistent, with meteorologists since the 1990s have often repeated conventional wisdom of about 25 million strikes across ...

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: ... A U.S. map shows lightning density data from 2024.

Last year the world recorded over 2.2 billion lightning strikes, ... A U.S. map shows lightning density data from 2024. ... This is largely due to its location in the Pacific Ocean: ...