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Kolkata in middle of India’s largest ‘lightning hotspot’

Kolkata sits in the middle of the country’s biggest lightning hotspot, with more than a third of last two years’ natural calamity deaths caused by this natural phenomenon alone, a study has revealed. What’s more worrying, it looks like matters will only get worse in the coming years, as there’s a direct correlation between climate change and lightning.

Kolkata sits in the middle of the country’s biggest lightning hotspot, with more than a third of last two years’ natural calamity deaths caused by this natural phenomenon alone, a study has revealed. What’s more worrying, it looks like matters will only get worse in the coming years, as there’s a direct correlation between climate change and lightning. from Times of India https://ift.tt/3kJwyxA

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