About 40,000 lightning bolts in just 13 hours late April 2018, struck the state of Andhra Pradesh in the country's southeast. That is more strikes than in the entire month of May 2017.
"A streak of unusually intense thunderstorms, dust storms and lightning ravaged India this year, claiming lives of more than 200 people and causing huge material damage. While dust storms and thunderstorms are common in the country at this time, the intensity appears to be anomalous, NASA's Earth Observatory reports."
