While a line of storms did form Thursday evening, the overall state coverage was isolated and so much of the state had an excellent evening to enjoy fireworks. Nature's fireworks, in the form of lightning, is the subject of today's featured map. It presents a stroke frequency analyses courtesy of the National Lightning Detection Network for Thursday. Most of the lightning yesterday was confined to northern Iowa. There was some worry within the weather forecast for yesterday that much of the evening would be a washout for much of the state, but thankfully that did not happen.

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