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Posted: 4/6/2006 7:31:19 PM EDT

What U.S. state has the best lighting storms? / What U.S. state has the most lighting storms?

I want to live in a state that has a lot of lighting storms. I think It would be cool to watch.

If you see alot of lightning storms please tell me what region of the state you live in, or some real cools places you know off.

And no, I am not going to disinter corpses and try to reanimate them in a lightning storm.

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:32:01 PM EDT

[#1]

Florida is the most lightning struck place IN THE WORLD

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:32:29 PM EDT

[#2]

I remember reading about whats called "The Lightning Field", where they have a vast amount of lighting rods... and you can sit down and watch them "light up" during a storm.

I think its in New Mexico/Arizona..

tag for other responses.

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:36:21 PM EDT

[#3]

We used to get hellacious lightning storms in Nebraska...and we still do in Texas.

They are bad boys in both states.

HH

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:36:25 PM EDT

[#4]

Alot of it is how good your view is as well. Out west I've seen some pretty amazing lightning, but there were no trees in any direction. In areas with more foliage, you hear alot of bangs, but miss out on 75% of the lightning because there are trees all around you.

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:39:02 PM EDT

[#5]

#1 Florida Everglades

#2 White Mountians in Arizona

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:39:28 PM EDT

[#6]

I always thought Florida was the lightning capital

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:52:10 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Florida is the most lightning struck place IN THE WORLD

This statement is incorrect.
Per this link www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/nasa_lightning_020128.html,
Central Africa has that claim. Florida is the hot spot in the U.S.

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:54:02 PM EDT

[#8]

We get some of the most intense and spectacular Lightning storms down here over the Everglades. Its been a few years, but when they come, I go sit out back and watch it approach.

Posted: 4/6/2006 7:59:50 PM EDT

[#9]

I keep thinking of Thunder Bay Ontario...

Posted: 4/6/2006 8:01:34 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Florida is the most lightning struck place IN THE WORLD

..and we have the coolest ones

Posted: 4/6/2006 8:02:37 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
We get some of the most intense and spectacular Lightning storms down here over the Everglades. Its been a few years, but when they come, I go sit out back and watch it approach.

Hell yes! Summer is right around the corner!!

Posted: 4/6/2006 8:03:58 PM EDT

[#12]

In the last few weeks we have had some good ones here in Little Rock, but it is that time of year. Anywere in the South you are going to get some good shows but Florida will be your best bet.

Posted: 4/6/2006 8:05:01 PM EDT

[#13]

I thought Tucson, AZ had the most strikes in the world.

Posted: 4/6/2006 8:16:00 PM EDT

[#14]

Florida has the most lightning in the U.S., but until you have seen a Supercell thunderstorm's lighting output, you haven't seen a real lighting storm.

They can put out a massive show of lighting and as an added bonus hail up to grapefruit size and an occasional tornado to boot. These storms put on quite a show, but we don't have them year round.

Posted: 4/6/2006 8:17:50 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Florida is the most lightning struck place IN THE WORLD

Discovery Channel just 10 minutes ago said Texas has more tornados than anywhere in the U.S.

HH

Posted: 4/6/2006 8:39:00 PM EDT

[#16]

Mountain tops, even high hills get WAY more lightning than average. Knew a guy with a 100 ft. tower on the highest point in the county, he would get strikes anytime a thunderstorm rolled through. Something to keep in mind next time you're hiking in the mountains and you hear thunder...

Lightning Strike survivor's group

Posted: 4/6/2006 8:43:04 PM EDT

[#17]

It isnt the most pleasant experience having lightning bolts strike within a hundred yards of your house every minute or so.

Fun to watch from a ways away though.

Posted: 4/6/2006 10:10:02 PM EDT

[#18]

http://www.menzelphoto.com/images/gallery/big/environment/lightning/gal_env_lig_01-.jpg

This is a typical Tucson monson summer storm.

Posted: 4/6/2006 10:26:45 PM EDT

[#19]

Florida is the state with the most lightning storms with storms occurring approximately 100 days out of the year; a fact about lightning is that lightning hits each square mile in Central Florida 40 times a year. Florida is also the state with the highest rate of lightning strikes in the nation with an average of 10 deaths per year (2001).

Posted: 4/6/2006 10:30:44 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Florida is the most lightning struck place IN THE WORLD

Actually, Java, an island of Indonesia, is the most active area in the world, with an average of 223 storm days per year.

Florida ranks number one in the number of deaths due to lightning, 94% of which occur between late May and end of September. An average of 100 people are killed in the U.S. each year (13 in Florida) and almost 600 injured (30 in Florida).

Posted: 4/7/2006 1:25:44 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
It isnt the most pleasant experience having lightning bolts strike within a hundred yards of your house every minute or so.

Fun to watch from a ways away though.

+1! You can hear all the transformers in the neighborhood blow, 1 by 1. And the requisite darkness to match.

Orlando is the thunderstorm capitol of the US. During the summer it storms so hard, its like the end of the world. I always expected to go outside afterwards and see the paint stripped off the car. Several times it rained soo hard I thought it might tear the roof off the house. Its unlike anything you've ever seen.

Posted: 4/7/2006 1:32:00 AM EDT

[#22]

Lighting storm?

They have those at raves.

Posted: 4/7/2006 2:59:13 AM EDT

[#23]

FEMA site on lightning

Posted: 4/7/2006 4:35:54 AM EDT

[#24]

I took these videos in Oct 2004 outside Austin TX.

Thunder overhead
Ground strike
Ground strike
Ground strike
Thunder overhead

Posted: 4/7/2006 5:00:07 AM EDT

[#25]

Orlando is the lightning capitol of the world.

Posted: 4/7/2006 5:02:55 AM EDT

[#26]

Dismal Seepage, Iowa has a lot of cornfields-(that's why their football
team is called the Kernels). Anyhow, it is a widely know factoid that
cornfields attract lightning.

There was this guy near us who couldn't make a go of it as a farmer, so
he went a little nutty and built a baseball diamond on his place.
Darned if old timers didn't start showing up in their uniforms ready for a
pick-up game.

Well, one night, late August, a whole bunch of geezers show up. They look like they had just
emerged from the grave, they were so "vintage". So the game gets going real
good and.....Kaaaaaa-Booooom!!! Lightning strike takes 'em all out. Nothing left but a
smouldering crater and about a zillion tons of popped corn. Seems the idiot farmer had
not tilled his surrounding fields under and because of the several rainstorms we'd had
that summer he had accidently grown what turned out to be a bumper crop of pop corn.

I recollect some talk a while back about a book or movie project based upon that idiot farmer;
but most of us have always felt no one would believe the story so we have just kind of kept it
local.

Posted: 4/7/2006 5:03:28 AM EDT

[#27]

West coast of Florida in mid summer

Posted: 4/7/2006 9:33:22 AM EDT

[#28]

For the US, definitely Florida. I remember a particularly violent storm I watched at MacDill AFB in 1984. I counted 8 separate ground and tree strikes within a 3 minute period within 100 feet of my office window. and that was with a very narrow field of view (maybe 60-70 degrees). There had to be 4-5 times as many more in the other directions I could not view. Anybody going out into that storm had to have a death wish.

Posted: 4/7/2006 9:59:35 AM EDT

[#29]

Arizona has gorgeous lightning storms......best viewed from high locations....

NO it isn't safe but it sure is pretty.....

Posted: 4/7/2006 10:40:48 AM EDT

[#30]

tag

Posted: 4/7/2006 11:07:07 AM EDT

[#31]

Northern VA had an awesome display earlier this week-double rainbow with cloud to cloud lightning bolts THROUGH the rainbow

Posted: 4/7/2006 11:15:14 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
West coast of Florida in mid summer

+1

There's a reason for the name:

Posted: 4/7/2006 11:19:10 AM EDT

[#33]

Why settle for just lightning?

Come to central Oklahoma's Tornado Alley and see some real phenomenon

Posted: 4/10/2006 7:37:54 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
Why settle for just lightning?

Come to central Oklahoma's Tornado Alley and see some real phenomenon

Don't people from Oklahoma have to live in a house like a concrete egg, or a geometric dome? Or are there just a bunch of nutjobs living in Oklahoma, present company excluded.

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