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This article describes the places where most lightning occur and provides the ranking of the first 500 lightning hotspots on Earth. The first Earth's lightning hotspot is Lake Maracaibo, in Venezuela, and occur during the night when the mountain-valley and the land-lake breezes converge over the warm lake water building the perfect scenario for thunderstorm development almost 300 days per year.
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This article pinpoint where lightning most occur in highest resolution possible for global lightning maps.
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This article shows that most of the lightning hotspots occur at or nearby complex terrain, highlighting the importance of local circulations on development of deep convection.
Rachel Albrecht
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This page is a summary of: Where Are the Lightning Hotspots on Earth?, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, November 2016, American Meteorological Society,
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-14-00193.1.
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