Spain sees more than 2,400 lightning strikes on Saturday, according to AEMET

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Spain sees more than 2,400 lightning strikes on Saturday, according to AEMET Credit: Twitter @AEMET_Esp

Spain’s National Meteorological Agency said on Saturday, May 14, its lightning network detected lightning strikes over a six-hour period.

“Between 10 a.m. (08 UTC) and 4 p.m. (14 UTC) the AEMET lightning network detected more than 2,400 lightning strikes. +info”, read a tweet posted by the Spanish AEMET.

Credit: Twitter @AEMET_Esp

AEMET’s official website said:

This map shows the lightning strikes detected in the region for a period of 6 hours. Lightning strikes on the territory of France and Portugal are not shown on the map, but are counted in the legend at the bottom of the map.

The position of each detected lightning strike is represented by a dot (negative discharges) or a plus sign (positive discharges). The color indicates the UTC (Universal Time Coordinate) time of each lightning strike: red for the most recent and dark blue for the oldest (see Interpretation).

In the selector below the map where the different times can be selected, the official time is used:

Peninsula and Balearic Islands: winter = UTC time + 1 hour, summer = UTC time + 2 hours.
Canary Islands: winter = UTC time, summer = UTC time + 1 hour

“The convective activity extends from Teruel to Asturias. Some convective cells exceed 54dBZ. Real-time access to regional radars and national composition is available at…,” reads another Tweet from AEMET along with images of energy captured on regional radars.

Credit: Twitter @AEMET_Esp

On their website, AEMET wrote more about the convective activity behind the lightning strikes:

Convective activity extends from Teruel to Asturias, Spain. Some convective cells exceed 54dBZ. Real-time access to regional radars and national composition is available on:
Reflectivity images corresponding to the lowest elevation of the radar scan (0.5° above the horizontal plane). The color scale indicates reflectivity ranges in decibels Z.

Echo height images with reflectivity greater than 12 decibels (dBZ). The color scale indicates the altitude intervals in km.

One hour and six hour precipitation accumulation images. The color scale indicates the precipitation amount ranges, in millimeters.

“#METEOSAT VISIBLE channel last 6h images,” reads another tweet posted by AEMET, along with images of the cloud gatherings seen over the peninsula over the past six hours that led to the lightning strikes.

Credit: Twitter @AEMET_Esp

The thunderstorms and ensuing lightning strikes had been previously forecast by AEMET which, for Saturday May 14, indicated that hail and showers accompanied by thunderstorms were expected in Spain in the afternoon. , specifically on the Castilian-Leonese plateau, the Pyrenees, Aragon and the Iberian Cordillera.

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