An impressive photo taken during a lightning storm by photographer Fendy Gan in the Klang Valley in Malaysia. The photo is made up of 32 individual photos taken over the course of 40 minutes.
This image captures a startling lightning storm over the city of Kuala Lumpur. The photographer said he just put his camera in burst mode and combined the photoshop results.
He said that thunder and lightning here were not uncommon, but this was a special storm because the sky was clear and the “attack” of lightning was hard to imagine. Malaysia is one of the most vulnerable countries to lightning in the world. The Klang Valley is also prone to extreme weather patterns and is home to the highest frequency of lightning strikes in the world.
Lightning occurs when an imbalance of electric charge is created on a thunderstorm cloud. When water droplets form inside a storm cloud, they are pushed to the top of the cloud by strong winds inside.
A UK research office has estimated that, around the world, there are more than 3,000,000 lightning flashes per day. But some parts of the world are more susceptible to lightning strikes than others. Images from NASA satellite observations have shown that lightning is more likely to strike over land than at sea, and it is more likely to occur closer to the equator. Two areas also believed to have more lightning than the Klang valley are eastern Central Africa and northwestern South America.
In the US, the National Weather Service has estimated that there are about 25 million lightning strikes each year, resulting in 20 deaths annually.