Lightning in Berlin and Brandenburg: decline despite the weather!

Lightning in Berlin and Brandenburg: decline despite the weather!

In 2024, fewer flashes were registered in Berlin and Brandenburg than usual. According to the flash location company Nowcast, there were 132,000 flashes in Brandenburg with a current of at least 5 ka. This represents a decline of around 6 percent compared to the ten-year fund (2014-2023). 3,500 flashes were recorded in Berlin, which corresponds to around 20 percent less than in the ten-year average.

Brandenburg occupies 5th place in the flash number in the nationwide comparison. Bavaria leads the statistics with 357,000 lightningloads and an increase of 15 percent, followed by Lower Saxony with 223,000 and Baden-Württemberg with 163,000 flashing. It is particularly striking that Berlin is in the penultimate place in the lightning ranking in front of Bremen.

regional lightning events and weather events

The most flashing month in Germany was June, in which around 460,000 discharges were registered. In addition, June 27th was documented as the most flashed day on which strong thunderstorms moved across the country. There were a total of 2024 more than 1.5 million flashes with at least 5 ka in Germany, the highest number since 2018, such as Welt

particularly strong lightningloads were also recorded. For example, the residents of Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice experienced a flash of lightning with an impressive current of 190,000 ampers on a July night. Normal flashes, on the other hand, achieve average current strengths of around 10,000 to 40,000 amps.