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Heavy rain, lightning and gusty winds lashed Chicago as storms swept eastern Illinois on August 25.This footage by Martin Engels shows lightning spidering across the Windy City’s skyline.The ...
Intense lightning bolts and flashes illuminated the Chicago skyline on July 5.This video, recorded by Craig Shimala, shows lightning streak through the night sky in Illinois during a powerful ...
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] About 70% of lightning occurs on land in the Tropics, where ...
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 ...
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.
Lightning is neither a DC or an AC current but best described as a unidirectional massive current impulse of electrons. [11] Lightning strikes are grouped into four categories: direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Direct strike: lightning directly hits the person
World map showing frequency of lightning strikes, in flashes per km 2 per year (equal-area projection). Lightning strikes most frequently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Combined 1995–2003 data from the Optical Transient Detector and 1998–2003 data from the Lightning Imaging Sensor.
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 ...