The sky over Tampa was electric on my last evening there! Tampa is the lightning capital of North America & one of the top locations on earth that receives the most lightning strikes per year. In fact, in a study from FSU, they have calculated for the average resident of Tampa is within a 1/2 mile of 10-15 lightning strikes per year. On average 10 people per year are killed in Tampa alone by lightning - that’s just one city! By comparison, on a global scale, the average number of people a year who are killed by sharks is 8, yet more people fear sharks than they do lightning. Your odds of being struck by lightning are 1/15,300 According to data from the Florida Museum of Natural History: you have a 1 in 79,746 chance of dying from a bolt of lightning. This statistic is quite shocking compared to a 1 in 3,748,067 chance of dying from a shark attack. (Even less if you never go in the water or near a Sharknado) #lightning #bolt #bolts #lightningstrike #lightningbolt #thunder #tampabay #tampa #florida #thunderstorm #thunderstorms #thunderstruck #storm #stormclouds #tampabaylightning #palmtrees #earthcapture #discoverearth #ourplanet #earthfocus #discover_earthpix #awesome_earthpix #nakedplanet #roamtheplanet #bbcearth #ShotOniPhone