Every second, as many as 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth. Now, a new map reveals a tally of those flashes over the last two decades, tracing where they strike the planet each year. Westward ...

Lightning Maps is "A world-wide, real-time, community based lightning detection and lightning location network with live lightning maps," according to its own description.

Lightning kills or injures about 250,000 people around the world every year, most frequently in developing countries, where many people work outside without lightning-safe shelters nearby. In the ...

Every second, as many as 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth. Now, a new map reveals a tally of those flashes over the last two decades, tracing where they strike the planet each year.

NASA has been recording just about every lightning strike for much of the past 20 years, and it has produced a map to show where this phenomenon is most common. It turns out that the eastern ...

The appropriately named LightningMaps.org tracks lightning activity all over the Earth thanks to a massive network of detection sensors, and you can watch it all happen in real-time.

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. Thes… ...

While Vagasky and his colleagues also discovered that lightning flashes in some parts of the country are more likely to hit the ground at multiple points than others, most of the US has a ratio ...

Here are some of the most up-to-date lightning maps. NASA also has a map of lightning strikes that’s regularly updated, showing lightning strikes from 1998 to the present.

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Lightning-strike map finds fires National network helps firefighters get to source of smoke By Dale Rodebaugh Staff reporter Friday, Aug 2, 2013 1:26 PM ...