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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Transboundary Bengal hotspot for lightning strikes: Report -Jayanta Basu

Transboundary Bengal hotspot for lightning strikes: Report -Jayanta Basu

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published Published on Jul 23, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 25, 2021

-Down to Earth

West Bengal, along with Bangladesh, received two million on-ground lightning bolts

The region of West Bengal in India and Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable in South Asia to lethal lightning strikes, according to a recent report.

West Bengal received the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in 2020, followed by Jharkhand, according to South Asia lightning Report ,2020 by Earth Networks, a global weather intelligence agency.

The company’s extensive network constantly monitors lightning strikes through thousands of sensors.

West Bengal, along with Bangladesh, received two million lightning bolts on ground — above 8 lightning strikes per square kilometer on average during last year.

Overall, 57 million lightning strikes were recorded in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka together. Around one-fourth of them were cloud-to-ground strikes and the rest were intra-cloud.

India received most strikes  

India received about 39.6 million intra-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in 2020, a whopping 70 per cent of the total number in the region.

The country received nearly 89 per cent of all the lethal cloud-to-ground strikes in the world.

India suffered 1,697 deaths due to lightning in 2020, according to a report prepared jointly by the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, Indian Meteorological Department and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, among others. During the last decade (2011-20), India recorded a total of 2,600 deaths a year on an average.

In Bangladesh, about a third of the three million lightning bolts were ground strikes. Rajshahi, Khulna, Dhaka and Rangpur districts received the most (over 0.1 million each) cloud-to-ground strikes in the country.

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Down to Earth, 23 July, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/transboundary-bengal-hotspot-for-lightning-strikes-report-78090?fbclid=IwAR3XTTfRpmYxLY1iXyouPJKP2ywQuunrEXs2cTBToKZ7SknBVs-5EoFwjCA


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