Researchers Claim They Can Predict Where Lightning Is Likely To Strike (www.cbc.ca)

A study by researchers at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering suggests it's possible to predict where lightning will strike and how often.They say satellite data and artificial intelligence can help foresee where lightning poses a greater risk to spark wildfires... "Those events don't just randomly happen," said Dr. Xin Wang, one of three researchers involved in the study. "They also have spatial and temporal patterns." One of the paper's authors says their analysis can predict areas with a high chance of wildfires with an accuracy greater than 90%.

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NOV 12 1955 10:04 pm

[Joe_Dragon]

NOV 12 1955 10:04 pm

Easy

[hcs_$reboot]

Since lightning never strikes the same place twice, through a process of elimination and thanks to a lot of statistical data one determines where lightning will not strike, thus find out where it is likely to strike next. In a few years from now, lightning will run out of places, and just stop.