Lightning Heatmap Climatology for all counties, airports, and fire weather zones in Continental United States

Website to explore the imagery: https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=1f94af1948914f4a8c4600cb427f2982&mobileBreakPoint=250

Dataset: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/severe-weather/lightning-products-and-services

Tools: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Highcharts, Stackoverflow

Note: Airports are normalized per unit area but counties and fire weather zones are not. Purpose is not to compare those as much as it is to find when lightning is most/least likely for each geographic area.

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