It’s about to get a lot more stormy, and that means more lightning. Last year, Florida accounted for nearly half the lightning deaths in the U.S. Here’s how to stay safe.
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It’s about to get more stormy in Florida, and that means more lightning. A lot more.
Though other states, such as Texas, often have more total lightning occurrences per year, Florida consistently leads the nation in lightning strike density, as in strikes per square mile, according to meteorologist Chris Vagasky, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Miami-Fort Lauderdale area had over 120,000 lightning strikes hit the ground in 2023.
