National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

This is Lightning Safety Awareness Week and here are some links to

lightning information that you should find interesting...

Statistics and safety...

http:www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/more.htm

Near up-to-date list of current year (2010) fatalities...

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/fatalities.htm

Maps and tables of fatalities and fatality rates per capita...

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/stats/99-08_deaths_by_state.pdf

Flashes and flash densities by state...

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/stats/96-08Cloud_to_Ground.pdf