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This animated map shows a year’s worth of lightning strikes across the United States. The animation reveals the clear seasonal patterns of lightning storms across the U.S. As you watch the animation, you can see the country’s lightning season move northwards with the changing seasons. During winter, lightning is largely confined to the Gulf Coast before activity spreads north in spring. By summer, thunderstorms are lighting up much of the country, with particularly intense activity across Florida and the Southwest, before the storms retreat south again in autumn. The map is one of the latest visualizations from the ever impressive mapped.earth. I recently featured mapped.earth’s... more →