Environment
Visualizing More Than 80 Million Lightning Strikes
This super-stormy map shows just one month of worldwide electrical violence.
Spring is when America's weather begins to sizzle and pop—clashing warm and cold air masses hurl out lightning, tornadoes, and as it so happened yesterday, rice ball-sized hail.
As the days of severe weather come upon us, what places are likely to get pummeled by Thor's voltaic hammer? Where will be the country's zones of relative calm?