You know the saying “lightning never strikes the same place twice”? Forget it. On a good night, one lake in Venezuela hosts thousands of lightning strikes every hour.
The phenomenon is known variously as the Beacon of Maracaibo, Catatumbo lightning or – cue dramatic roll of thunder - the “everlasting storm”. That last one might be a slight exaggeration but where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo there is an average of 260 storm days per year.
Here the night sky is regularly illuminated for nine hours with thousands of flashes of naturally produced electricity.
Article from: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150810-the-most-electric-place-on-earth
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