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Siemens detected about 443,000 lighting strikes in Germany in 2017

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• Siemens' lightning information service detected about 443,000 lightning strikes in Germany in 2017 – 11,000 more than in 2016
• Germany's "capital of lightning" was Mainz, followed by Wiesbaden and Berlin
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen was the German district struck most often by lightning, lowest rates were in the city of Pirmasens
• At the European level, Slovenia leads the ranking
Garmisch-Partenkirchen District in Upper Bavaria was the German region with the most lightning activity in 2017. Siemens' lightning information service BLIDS (which stands for Blitz-Informationsdienst von Siemens) registered 3.51 lightning strikes per square kilometer in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2017.Original Article