How many lightning strikes hit Florida yesterday?
96,505 lightning flashes were detected across Florida on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, local time. Activity peaked at 11 AM EDT with 8,042 flashes in a single hour — roughly 5x a normal day for this state.
Counts come from the NOAA GOES East/West Geostationary Lightning Mappers, which detect optical flashes from orbit. They include in-cloud lightning and are not a confirmed cloud-to-ground strike tally. A day here is a local calendar day in America/New_York, and totals are aggregated over the Florida bounding box, so cells near a border can fall either side. No detections in a period is not an all-clear.
Florida lightning by day, last 7 days
Each row is one completed local calendar day.
| Day | Detected flashes | Peak hour | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue, Sep 29 | 96,505 | 11 AM EDT | 96,505 flashes |
| Mon, Sep 28 | 19,410 | 11 PM EDT | 19,410 flashes |
| Sun, Sep 27 | 9 | 10 PM EDT | 9 flashes |
| Sat, Sep 26 | 2 | 12 AM EDT | 2 flashes |
| Fri, Sep 25 | 74 | 5 AM EDT | 74 flashes |
| Thu, Sep 24 | 138 | 12 AM EDT | 138 flashes |
| Wed, Sep 23 | 13,685 | 8 AM EDT | 13,685 flashes |
Across the last 30 days Florida recorded 924,611 detected flashes. The busiest day was Tuesday, September 29, 2026 with 96,505.
Questions about Florida daily lightning counts
How many lightning strikes did Florida have yesterday?
NOAA GOES East/West GLM detected 96,505 lightning flashes across Florida on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, local time. Activity peaked at 11 AM EDT with 8,042 flashes in that hour. These are satellite-detected optical flashes, not a confirmed cloud-to-ground strike count.
What counts as a day on this page?
A local calendar day in Florida (America/New_York), midnight to midnight — not a UTC day. An evening storm that runs past midnight UTC still counts toward the evening it started.
Is this the same as the number on the Florida lightning map?
No. The map page counts a rolling 24-hour window that moves with the clock. This page counts closed calendar days, so the totals are answering different questions and will not match.
Are these cloud-to-ground strikes?
No. GLM is an optical instrument on a geostationary satellite and detects total lightning, which includes in-cloud flashes. Counts are flash detections, not confirmed ground strikes, and locations are approximate flash centroids.
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