{"id":22527,"date":"2021-09-21T21:14:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T01:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=22527"},"modified":"2021-09-21T23:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:41:17","slug":"hourly-lightning-climatology-by-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/09\/hourly-lightning-climatology-by-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Hourly lightning climatology by county"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is an interesting product that I found online when doing a search for a climatology of lightning strikes. It is an experimental product from the Medford OR National Weather Service office and was developed to help with lightning-initiated wildfires. It shows a count or frequency table of lightning strikes by county, hour of day, and week of year for the 1988-2017 period. It covers the continental US. The web page has a 4-minute video that describes the product and a link to get to the data tables. Take a look at it and see what you think! https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/mfr\/\/lightning_climatology<\/a>. The first table below is for Jefferson County AL (Birmingham) and shows the strong summer daytime thunderstorms in May through August from noon to 8 pm. By comparison, when I looked at my home of Kent County MI (Grand Rapids; second table), the lightning is much more evenly distributed throughout all hours due to more frontal thunderstorms in the summer, although the total number of strikes is much lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is an interesting product that I found online when doing a search for a climatology of lightning strikes. It is an experimental product from the Medford OR National Weather Service office and was developed to help with lightning-initiated wildfires. It shows a count or frequency table of lightning strikes by county, hour of day, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":22528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22532,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22527\/revisions\/22532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}