Catatumbo lightning

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Catatumbo lightning

#1 Postby Ptarmigan » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:30 pm

Catatumbo lightning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning

Happens around Lake Maracaibo at night. It is a bunch of lightning storms from thunderstorms at night. They last all night.

The areas with most lightning strikes are South America, Central Africa, and Northwestern Australia. For America, the state with most lightning strikes are Florida and Texas.
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