Texas again has topped the list of U.S. states that saw the most lightning activity, according to new research. The Lone Star State experienced 33 million lightning "strokes" in 2020, according to data from environmental measurement specialist Vaisala’s National Lightning Detection Network.
Florida leaped three places from 2019 to claim second place with just over 12 million strokes and Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri rounded out the top five. "A cloud-to-ground stroke, also known as a stroke, is a lightning discharge that connects a charge region in a cloud to the ground and is the bright, high current, visible part of lightning that touches the ground or an object," explained Vaisala in the annual lightning report. "A cloud-to-ground flash.
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