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This gives Lake Maracaibo the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in the world, at 250. [6] The region with the second-most is the village Kifuka , in the mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , [ 7 ] where the elevation is around 1,700 metres (5,600 ft), receives 232 lightning strikes per square kilometer (600 ...
According to the CDC there are about 6,000 lightning strikes per minute, or more than 8 million strikes every day. [11] As of 2008 there were about 240,000 "lightning strikes incidents" around the world each year. [12] According to National Geographic in 2009, about 2,000 people were killed annually worldwide by lightning. [13]
Number of tropical cyclones Number of named storms [nb 3] ≥64 knots [nb 4] (74 mph, 119 km/h) sustained winds Strongest storm Deaths Damage US$ Retired names Notes 1800 Atlantic: 6 6 6 3 1801 Atlantic: 2 2 2 Western Pacific: 1 1 1 1802 Atlantic: 1 1 1 Western Pacific: 1 1 1 1803 Atlantic: 4 4 4 122 Western Pacific: 2 2 2 1804 Atlantic: 5 5 4 ...
When such storms have a brief period of severe weather associated with them, it is known as a pulse severe storm. Pulse severe storms are poorly organized and occur randomly in time and space, making them difficult to forecast. Single-cell thunderstorms normally last 20–30 minutes. [15]
Earliest and next earliest forming Atlantic tropical / subtropical storms by storm number Storm number Earliest Next earliest Name Date of formation Name Date of formation 1 One [11] January 3, 1938 One [11] January 4, 1951 2 Able [11] May 16, 1951 Two [11] May 17, 1887 3 Cristobal [27] June 2, 2020 Colin [27] June 5, 2016 4 Danielle [28] June ...
No thunderstorms: 2 Isolated thunderstorms. Lightning is very infrequent, 1–5 cloud-to-ground strikes in a five-minute period. 3 Widely scattered thunderstorms. Lightning is infrequent, 6–10 cloud-to-ground strikes in a five-minute period. 4 Scattered thunderstorms. Lightning is frequent, 11–15 cloud-to-ground strikes in a 5-minute period. 5
Highest number of tropical storms in a season: 39 official storms during the 1964 Pacific typhoon season: May 12, 1964 – December 17, 1964: Northwest Pacific Ocean [38] Warmest eye: 34.0 °C (93.2 °F) at 700 hPa height: August 19, 1979: Typhoon Judy in the northwest Pacific Ocean [39] Coldest cloud tops produced by a tropical cyclone
The most intense storm by lowest pressure and peak 10-minute sustained winds was Typhoon Tip, which was also the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in terms of minimum central pressure. Storms with a minimum pressure of 899 hPa (26.55 inHg) or less are listed. Storm information was less reliably documented and recorded before 1950. [6]