Despite the Feeling of Thunderstorms: Bavaria Has Not Been so Low in Lightning for a Long Time

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First this summer was very hot, then very humid – but actually never both together. That's why it has flashed so little in the Free State this year as rarely in the past 20 years.

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In Bavaria this year there are significantly fewer flashes of lightning across the sky. Experts count only 20,470 discharges – the lowest value of the past 20 years.

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In the Free State this year it has been much less frequent than in the last years. First it was too dry, then too cold.A good half of the thunderstorm season is over and in Bavaria it has been unusually rare. The information service Aldis/Blids counted 20,470 Earth flashes until the end of July. This is a good third less than in the three years before, in which more than 30,000 lightning flashes were always recorded after seven months. If one dr…