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Share your experience of lightning strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean

A lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Montevideo, Uruguay in March 2024.
A lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Montevideo, Uruguay in March 2024. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Scientists have warned for years that rising temperatures across the planet are likely to cause more lightning. The Caribbean is among those regions that have experienced an increase in damaging strikes over the past two decades, according to experts.

Have you been affected by dramatic lightning strikes in the Caribbean? Do you have experiences or pictures of lightning impact in Jamaica, Belize, Barbados or any other country in the region? Or perhaps in Latin America?

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