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Dancing in the rain: Jessica Cartee, left, and Meagan Wilson play in the rain at Lake Robinson as a storm passes over the park Tuesday.

Photo by Mandy Ferguson.
Rain, lightning blitz Greer
Krista Gibson
Staff Reporter

The thunderstorms that blew through Greer and Taylors Monday and Tuesday lit up the sky with hundreds of lightning strikes.

"Lightning forms when thunderstorms get very tall," said Bryan McAvoy, National Weather Service meteorologist. "The taller a thunderstorm gets, the more ice it has in it and ice is what causes the electrification of it. Monday and Tuesday's storms happened to be very tall storms."

Tuesday, between 3 and 4 p.m., 648 lightning strikes were recorded in the northeast portion of Greenville County and northwest corner of Spartanburg County by the National Weather Service.



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