In the UK we associate lightning with convective thunderstorms after a spell of hot weather, so we expect to see most activity at the height of summer. A study from the University of Portsmouth confirms this broad picture but also reveals distinct regional variations.
The team combined data gathered by the Met Office’s ATDnet, France’s Météorage and the German LINET over 12 years. These detect the radio waves emitted by lightning from hundreds of kilometres away and triangulate its location.
