As our season of thunderboomers gets ready to rumble, there are dedicated bolt counters out there, geared to tabulate the exact number of air-to-ground electrical discharges across the nation and around the world, including the Arctic Circle. In fact, it’s sudden and unprecedented bolts showing themselves in the North Pole region that has worried scientists fretting, fearing those rapidly increasing Arctic strikes might lead to uncontainable wildfires across the Tundra – issuing enough smoke to heat the planet even faster than is already taking…
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