General Information. Most active day this year was 22nd July 2006 with 28790 Most active minute was 22 July at 13:57 with 142 strikes per minute. Data using discharge software by daniel van os to follow. Please note Storm Tracker has now been reconfigured for storms. As summer approaches storms increase rapidly and to reduce clutter on the screens only correlated strikes will be shown. June was a quiet month however July gave us several large lightning storms on 4,5,6 and 22 nd. May has warmer and unsettled weather. This usually see's an increase in lightning during the day and mid afternoon look back around 15:00. April was very quiet lightning wise with only one evening of lightning storms in central France. March saw an increase of lightning particularly around the Atlantic Ocean. Particular bad day was the 27 March with up to 6 strikes per minute.