You’re more likely to get struck by lightning here than anywhere else on Earth

If you don’t want to get struck by lightning, avoid open areas and tall objects, as the experts suggest. But if you want to be extra safe, stay the heck away from the middle of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo. Satellite data suggest that one particular square kilometer there—on the northern tip of South America—gets zapped more than 200 times per year.

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“You’re more likely to get struck by lightning here than anywhere else on Earth”

Fark.

There’s a good world map of lightning strikes somewhere, interesting in that if shows the occurrence of lightning at sea.

mollwollfumble said:

There’s a good world map of lightning strikes somewhere, interesting in that if shows the occurrence of lightning at sea.

You can zoom right into your place. :) (dynamic map)

https://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzortung/oceania/index.php?lang=en

Woodie said:

mollwollfumble said:

There’s a good world map of lightning strikes somewhere, interesting in that if shows the occurrence of lightning at sea.

You can zoom right into your place. :) (dynamic map)

https://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzortung/oceania/index.php?lang=en

Hmmmm…..*toddles off to check Wentworth Falls *

There’s been 1800+ lightning strikes with 100km radius of my place in the last 24 hours.

Woodie said:

There’s been 1800+ lightning strikes with 100km radius of my place in the last 24 hours.

How can they tell if a spot has been hit multiple times?

bob(from black rock) said:

Woodie said:

There’s been 1800+ lightning strikes with 100km radius of my place in the last 24 hours.

How can they tell if a spot has been hit multiple times?

The sparks are flying literally speaking.

Just had to go & rescue a kookaburra from the kitchen. Flew in & kept trying to get through a closed window.
If the butchies fly in they go out through any open door or window without bumping into anything.

Tau.Neutrino said:

You’re more likely to get struck by lightning here than anywhere else on Earth

If you don’t want to get struck by lightning, avoid open areas and tall objects, as the experts suggest. But if you want to be extra safe, stay the heck away from the middle of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo. Satellite data suggest that one particular square kilometer there—on the northern tip of South America—gets zapped more than 200 times per year.

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Northern Columbia, Venezuela and Pakistan and bad, but not quite the worst.

The Congo is the worst.