Four Corners is an unincorporated community just west of Walt Disney World spanning portions of Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Polk Counties. The suburb is recognized as lightning capital of the United States. According to WFLA, the area was found to have the highest lighting strike density of anywhere in the country in 2022. The density was based on 474 lightning strikes per square kilometer during the year. Coming in with the second highest density is Greensburg, Louisiana with 387 strikes per square kilometer. The third highest density was Ariel, Mississippi with 376 lighting strikes per square kilometer.
I live about 40 miles west of there. The amount of thunder and lightning we experience - especially at this tie of year, the rainy season for us - is like nothing I've never experienced, and I've lived through tornados, earthquakes and hurricanes too frightening to even describe.
The funniest thing is, I dig the shit out of it. It's a natural wonder,
no doubt about it. I wonder what the cavemen thought it was.
Maybe that's about when they made-up God to explain it away...
no lightning. no ozone. it is beautiful as it is beneficial
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ReplyDeleteFunny, Pinellas County used to be called the lightning rod of the world.....I remember coming over the old Sunshine Skyway back in the 70's and seeing 10 or 15 flashes over St. Pete and the surrounding areas at the same time, while there were lightning bursts all around me on top of the Skyway....something about being a peninsula....
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