Lightning strikes 100 times every second.

Lightning strikes 100 times every second.

While this statistic refers to global lightning strikes, it only counts lightning that contacts the ground! During any given minute, there are more than a thousand thunderstorms around the Earth causing more than 6,000 flashes of lightning. Most of it goes from cloud-to-cloud.  In Canada, on average, 7 people will die and 60 more will be injured every year from lightning. Men are struck by lightning 4 times more often than women – Why do you suppose that is?