Question: What location holds the world record for most lightning strikes?
Answer: The highest concentration of lightning in the world is in Venezuela, where the Catatumbo River flows into Lake Maracaibo. The area sees thousands of lighting strikes almost every night for eight months of the year—as many of 40,000 lightning bolts every night. For thousands of years, a lightning storm has raged about three miles up in the troposphere above the lake, so the lightning flashes are silent and sailers can use the illumination to help navigate.
