weather underground lightning strike map

The strike occurred around 6:50 p.m., local time, and. Printable versions are at the bottom of each of the three map segments. The lightning strike hit Lafayette Square, located in the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW, during a severe thunderstorm on Thursday. Satellite-based lightning detection also does not depict the exact location where the flash occurred because of an issue known as 'parallax.' Mouse over each day to view the 24-h cumulative lightning flash maps. Every year, the Earth experiences an average of 25 million lightning strikes during some 100,000 thunderstorms. More about lightning At any point of time there are about 1800 thunderstorms.

In-cloud lightning flashes can comprise 60–90% of the total lightning (i.e., most lightning does not reach the ground). Lightning Tracker This animated lightning map is updated every few minutes and reports strikes as they happen in the UK on a 3-hour cycle. Option #1 only represents cloud-to-ground lightning flashes, and is based on a surface detection network. Option #2 does not discriminate between cloud-to-ground versus in-cloud flashes (i.e., it represents the total lightning) and is based on satellite. There are two sets of images for (1) NLDN cloud-to-ground flashes only and (2) GOES-East Lightning Mapper (GLM) cloud flash points. The lightning images below are updated daily around 7:30–8:30 AM and contain 24-h accumulations of lightning ending at 6 am MDT (5 am MST) each day.

Weather underground lightning strike map