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Lightning strikes Nunavut from top to bottom

Lightning is rare in the Arctic, but becoming more common.

By Corey Larocque, Nunatsiaq News July 14, 2022
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Nunavut is being hit with lightning from top to bottom because a “pretty significant heat wave” created the right conditions for a phenomenon that’s ordinarily uncommon in the North, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada says.

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