Here’s a way cool website that displays worldwide lightning strike data in near real time.
Category: Weather
Have you ever wondered which areas are most prone to tornado activity in Southeast Michigan? The top map displays the track and intensity of every tornado in the period of record. The bottom is a heat map denoting relative frequency. Via NWS Detroit.
Today is the anniversary of an historic solar storm, the Carrington Event On Sept. 2, 1859, a CME struck Earth’s magnetic field with such power that telegraph stations caught fire and people in Cuba read their morning newspapers by the red light of the aurora borealis. If a similar storm…