710,117 lightning strikes hit western Canada in 15 hours

[Nevilledog]

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Storm-producing fire clouds threw out hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes over wildfire-stricken British Columbia and northwestern Alberta provinces in Canada Wednesday and Thursday, bewildering meteorologists.

710,117 lightning strikes hit western Canada in 15 hours
One expert called the weather 'really horrifying.'
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2:02 PM · Jul 1, 2021

https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/pyrocumulonimbus-British-Columbia-lightning-Canada-16287681.php

Storm-producing fire clouds threw out hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes over wildfire-stricken British Columbia and northwestern Alberta provinces in Canada Wednesday and Thursday, bewildering meteorologists.

Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist with the company Vaisala, which maps lightning strikes around in the world, said the North American Lightning Detection Network sensed 710,177 lightning events across British Columbia and northwestern Alberta in about 15 hours, between 3 p.m. on June 30 and 6 a.m. on July 1.

Of those, 597,314 were in-cloud pulses, meaning the strikes didn't hit the ground. "Each in-cloud lightning 'strike' can be made up of multiple in-cloud pulses," Vagasky explained.

There were 112,803 cloud-to-ground strokes detected over the same area, he said.

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[JoeOtterbein]

1. Horrible, but...

...thanks for posting.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Great cross post for the Weather Watchers group. . .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1232

❤

[ecstatic]

3. Someone is using a weather machine. Guaranteed.

Tornados in Chicago. etc. Asymmetrical warfare.