The World’s Top Lightning Hotspots
Using 16 years of lightning data, researchers were able to scan the earth for areas of intense lightning activity at a resolution of 0.1 degree. This brought the global distribution of lightning activity into very clear focus. They were able to identify and rank small areas of Earth that generated the greatest amount of lightning during the 1998 to 2013 observation period. A detailed report of their work was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.