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Lightning Hotspots
During Darwin's wet season stretching from November to April, the sky often comes alive with electrifying activity. The intense monsoonal weather systems fuel frequent lightning strikes ...
It is a major hotspot for lightning activity. This area is characterized by high atmospheric instability due to intense solar heating. When the sun heats the Earth’s surface, it causes air to ...
If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you'll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right ...
you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or rather the tiny ...
Special receivers set up across Australian skies detect any waves emitted during lightning activity — whether it be cloud-to-cloud or strikes that eventually reach the ground. These pulses are ...
"Now that lightning activity has abated for the time being, we are definitely mobilising crews to get out and start working on those repairs as soon as possible," she said. About 5,000 properties ...
To see the annual variation in thunderstorm and lightning activity across Australia, have a look at the average annual thunder-day and lightning flash density maps Hail is solid precipitation in the ...
Research has delved into lightning in North India (NI) and North-East India (NEI), discovering how land use and topography ...
Lightning killed four villagers on May 6 – two people herding sheep and a couple working on their farm – marking the first time the area has experienced a lethal storm as climate change fuels ...
The scale of the phenomenon hampers researchers’ attempts at simulation such as in-room or numerical experiments. Limited observation stations on the ground make it difficult to assess global ...