Lightning. It avoids the ocean, but likes Florida. It's likely to strike in the Himalayas and even more so in central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the North or South Poles. These are ...

A chart showing lightning distribution has been developed using color variations to show the average annual number of lightning flashes per square kilometer based on space-based optical sensor data ...

Using two orbiting optical sensors, NASA researchers based at the Marshall Space Flight Center claim to have produced the most accurate map detailing the history of lightning strikes. The maps show, ...