Lightning in Virginia

Lightning Strike Density Map for Virginia
Source: Virginia State Climatology Office

Virginia gets 40 or so thunderstorms a year. Pay attention to the precautions, especially if you are out in the open when a storm comes near. In 1968, Governor Godwin's daughter was killed by a lightning strike at Camp Pendleton (the "Camp David" for Virginia's top officials, south of Virginia Beach), while the governor was at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.

Links

• current lightning in the Northeast
• NASA
• Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity Research
• Where Lightning Strikes
• National Weather Service
• Lightning Safety
• Virginia Thunderstorms and Lightning
• Southeast Regional Climate Center
• Lightning in the Southeastern United States
• Vaisala Thunderstorm
• Lightning Explorer showing recent lightning activity across the entire continental U.S
• Towers, Lightning, and Human Affairs - "The central thesis of this paper is that a tower of moderate height may serve to concentrate lightning and lightning damage nearby."
• Virginia State Climatology Office
• Lightning in Virginia
• Lightning Strike Density Map for Virginia