Wednesday, 6. November 2002
Topic: - on November 6, 2002 at 10:32:27 AM CET
Lightning in Brazil sets shocking record
Tropical Brazil is the country most struck by lightning in the world and it suffers the highest death toll and serious economic damage from electric thunderstorms, new research showed Tuesday. Osmar Pinto, a researcher of Atmospheric Electricity Group with the Brazilian Institute for Space Studies which mapped lightning incidence using satellite data, said the country was struck by 70 million lightning bolts a year, or between two and three electric discharges per second.
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