France lived under lightning in June.
Last month saw record storm activity, with more than 200,000 lightning strikes in France, according to the Météorage detection network, a subsidiary of Météo-France.
“More than 200,000 detected cloud-to-ground lightning strikes hit mainland France for the month of June 2022 alone, an absolute record, never before observed for a month of June since 1989, the start of observations made by Météorage”, notes the specialist in lightning detection.
"This month of June alone represents 73% of the lightning activity of this 1st half of 2022, with 29 stormy days and 206,257 cloud-to-ground lightning (out of 283,266 recorded since the start of the year)", specifies the SME .
Based in Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Météorage is a European leader in lightning risk prevention, with around twenty precision sensors in France (more than a hundred in Europe), and more than 1,600 subscribers to a lightning protection system. alert linked to the detection of impacts.
Among them, industrial sites, network operators and sites open to the public, in particular.
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