Are Uganda's deadly lightning strikes becoming more common? | Alaska Dispatch

“I don’t know which minister is in charge of the lightning, but let the government come with a statement to inform the country on what is going on and how we can manage it,” Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s speaker of parliament, told legislators on Monday.
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With climate change increasingly altering the region’s weather patterns, meteorologists warned that extreme weather conditions -– from floods and droughts to lightning strikes – could become the norm in Uganda.