Nova Scotia saw the most lightning ever recorded in the province in July, and almost all of it came from one single weather event: the historic and deadly storm on July 21.
Crazy lightning in Gaspereau NS #nsstorm #nswx @YHZweatherguy @ryansnoddon @ReedTimmerAccu pic.twitter.com/jM4pmKjmZ2"Everyone knows how exceptional that [storm] was in terms of rainfall, but definitely exceptional in terms of the lightning as well," said Ian Hubbard, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.Hubbard notes the data only covers cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. Lightning that doesn't reach the surface, or cloud-to-cloud strikes, are not included.
"When we do have an event, or a month like we just had in July, it really stands out to people because it is so exceptional," he said. "We see a lot of fluctuating … just between one year to the next. There was a huge jump there but we're not able to look at these numbers and predict a trend," Hubbard said.
"We have all these little dots showing the trend or the distribution of lightning strikes and you have this one way up in the corner there standing there like it doesn't belong, and yet it's real. It occurred. And it was this year."Climate change inevitably means more lightning strikes in our future, Phillips said, because there's a direct correlation between the warmth of the atmosphere and the frequency of lightning strikes.
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