HOUSTON – A staggering 56,000 lightning strikes lit up the Houston skies Saturday, produced by multiple storms thundering through the area. And those are cloud-to-ground strikes, according to CenterPoint Energy.
“That may seem like a lot of lightning strikes, but it’s actually fairly common in big storms like we saw yesterday,” KPRC 2 Chief Meteorologist Anthony Yanez said. “But it has been a long time since we’ve seen a big thunderstorm complex like this in the city of Houston.”
CenterPoint explained to KPRC 2 that they use 150 sensors in the Houston area to monitor lightning strikes. On Saturday, those 56,000 strikes were detected between 3 a.m. and 7 p.m…