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Airport Lightning Risk Index
A meteorologist with Vaisala, Chris Vagasky, told AccuWeather National Reporter Bill Wadell: Lightning heats up the atmosphere to hotter than the sun s surface and it packs thousands of times more electricity than the outlets on the wall that you would plug your phone or computer into.
A weather data measurement firm, Vaisala, has developed an Airport Lightning Risk Index that can compute how much every airport in the United States is affected by lightning. The index takes the number of departure and landings at an airport and multiplies that by the density of lightning in that region.