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Lightning is known to occur on average 44 times a second over the entire earth, totaling nearly 1.4 billion flashes a year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an average bolt of lightning carries 20,000 amperes of current and these bolts can strike the ground, the air or inside clouds, with inside cloud strikes being the most predominant.
Forecasters can and do forecast the likelihood of intense lightning activity, but it is impossible to forecast individual strikes since lightning is so widespread, frequent and random. In the U.S., lightning strikes the ground approximately 25 million times each year; and the highest frequency of cloud-to-ground lightning is in Central Florida between Tampa and Orlando, making it the lightning capital of the United States.