When that hair starts to stick up, it's a good sign that lightning is about to strike in your vicinity. When you're in that situation, you should get inside immediately.

The number of lightning flashes in 2023 was up 6.6% compared to the prior year. For Tennessee alone, 1,985,567 lightning flashes made up nearly 2% of the total lightning flashes in the U.S. last year.

If you can't count to thirty before you hear thunder, lightning is dangerously close and it's time to get inside. While there were no deaths in Virginia last year, fatalities are on the rise.

Researchers say that lightning strikes have become increasingly deadly in the South Asian country, with over 101,000 deaths recorded between 1967 and 2020 – nearly 1,900 each year.