Europe_6HR_Jul_2014
--June is the middle of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and typically is the most active lightning month in Europe. --Although the most frequent direction of thunderstorm movement is from west to east, there are periods of easterlies over many parts of Europe at various times through the month. This large-scale E to W motion of lightning almost never occurs over the U.S. during summer. --Lightning over Scandinavia tends to occur over land in the afternoon, and not move offshore over the cold ocean, indicating that daytime heating is minimally strong enough to produce flash activity for a few hours. ~Ron Holle
Aug 1, 2014 Webmaster Archive
--02 to 04 July: A well-organized low is circulating over Spain and producing frequent lightning, then it moves NE. --02, 07-09 July: The only flashes of the month occur over Iceland. --04 to 07 July: Much of the July lightning over Turkey is on these days. --09 to 12 July: Frequent German lightning moves rapidly E to W. --12 to 13 July: Fairly frequent lightning occurs along the coasts of Scandinavia. --13-15, 19, 25-26, and 29-30 July: Thunderstorms form along the coastal mountains of Morocco and Algeria. --17 to 20 July: Most of the July lightning over the British Isles occurs during these days. --23 to 24 July: An E-W line of thunderstorms over western Russia moves south and amplifies during the afternoons, most likely along a cold front sagging southward. --27 to 31 July: Lightning is detected NE of Finland; the farthest N is on the 28th. Such thunderstorms occur at this latitude in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres around and after the longest day of the year ~Ron Holle
Aug 11, 2014 7:46:52 PM Dave Fincher