How many lightning strikes hit Montana yesterday?
No lightning was detected across Montana on Friday, November 6, 2026, local time. NOAA GOES East/West GLM returned zero optical flashes inside the state for that whole calendar day.
Counts come from theNOAA GOES East/West Geostationary Lightning Mappers, which detect optical flashes from orbit. They include in-cloud lightning and are not a confirmed cloud-to-ground strike tally. A day here is a local calendar day in America/Denver, and totals are aggregated over the Montana bounding box, so cells near a border can fall either side. No detections in a period is not an all-clear.
Montana lightning by day, last 7 days
Each row is one completed local calendar day.
| Day | Detected flashes | Peak hour | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 6 | 0 | — | 0 flashes |
| Thu, Nov 5 | 3 | 11 AM MST | 3 flashes |
| Wed, Nov 4 | 1 | 1 PM MST | 1 flashes |
| Tue, Nov 3 | 2 | 2 PM MST | 2 flashes |
| Mon, Nov 2 | 0 | — | 0 flashes |
| Sun, Nov 1 | 0 | — | 0 flashes |
| Sat, Oct 31 | 0 | — | 0 flashes |
Across the last 30 days Montana recorded 2,503 detected flashes. The busiest day was Saturday, October 10, 2026 with 885.
Questions about Montana daily lightning counts
How many lightning strikes did Montana have yesterday?
NOAA GOES East/West GLM detected no lightning flashes across Montana on Friday, November 6, 2026, local time. A zero day is a real measurement, not missing data, and it is not an all-clear for any particular moment.
What counts as a day on this page?
A local calendar day in Montana (America/Denver), midnight to midnight — not a UTC day. An evening storm that runs past midnight UTC still counts toward the evening it started.
Is this the same as the number on the Montana lightning map?
No. The map page counts a rolling 24-hour window that moves with the clock. This page counts closed calendar days, so the totals are answering different questions and will not match.
Are these cloud-to-ground strikes?
No. GLM is an optical instrument on a geostationary satellite and detects total lightning, which includes in-cloud flashes. Counts are flash detections, not confirmed ground strikes, and locations are approximate flash centroids.
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