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Global map of lightning frequency--strikes/km 2 /yr. The high lightning areas are on land located in the tropics. Areas with almost no lightning are the Arctic and Antarctic, closely followed by the oceans which have only 0.1 to 1 strikes/km 2 /yr. The map on the right shows that lightning is not distributed evenly around the planet. [5]
There's a mesmerizing new project from an organization called Blitzortung.org that lets you see real-time lightning strikes around the world. It works using a network of volunteers willing to ...
Lightning strikes growing in the United States. Vaisala Xweather, which tracks lightning, is tallied just over 242 million bolts of lightning in the U.S. in 2023. The company tells USA TODAY that ...
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The flash of a lightning strike and resulting thunder occur at roughly the same time. But light travels 300,000 km/sec, almost a million times the speed of sound. Sound travels at the slower speed of about 340 m/sec (depending on the temperature), so the flash of lightning is seen before thunder is heard.
Warr’s video shows lightning striking the aircraft while it was parked at the gate. Commercial aircraft, such as the one in the video, are hit by lightning only once or twice a year on average ...
There are about 40,000 thunderstorms per day across the globe, generating roughly 100 lightning strikes per second, [1] which can be thought to charge the Earth like a battery. Thunderstorms generate an electrical potential difference between the Earth's surface and the ionosphere, mainly by means of lightning returning current to ground ...
U.S. Forest Service personnel responded to a lightning caused fire near Capitan on Wednesday. No containment was reported.