The phrase "amount of lightning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity or intensity of lightning during a storm or in a scientific context.
Example: "The amount of lightning during the thunderstorm was unprecedented, illuminating the sky with bright flashes."
Alternatives: "quantity of lightning" or "level of lightning".
The large number of deaths in Mexico cannot be explained by the amount of lightning, but by the government's failure to implement education and prevention strategies in communities living and working in vulnerable conditions, the study found.
He isn't writing for a village but rather for readers with an equally idiosyncratic regard for the world: Dirty fingernails in August, and just The amount of lightning threatened; superb Courtiers sweep through the various precincts Fingering each other's beads in the jagged dusk.
Recently, the amount of lightning damage has increased with the number of lightning flashes.
Although some authors did not find differences on those characteristics for different regions, there has not been a comprehensive amount of lightning recordings from the same thunderstorm in order to evaluate such parameters in a storm-to-storm basis.
However, there are so few, that the amount of lightning activity is comparable to Earth.
2012 has also seen an unfortunate amount of damage from both lightning and human caused wildfires.
A small amount of nitrogen is fixed by lightning, but most of the nitrogen harvested from the atmosphere is removed by nitrogen-fixing bacteria and cyanobacteria (formerly called blue-green algae).
Nowadays the electrical activity measured in tall objects has been widely characterized, but the collected data of lightning rods installed in buildings do not amount to enough to obtain reliable statistics.
These people told the Civil Aeronautics Board that the storm was increasing in intensity, and they observed increasing amounts of thunder and lightning.
A small amount of nitrogen is also fixed by lightning.
In the case of thunder the emotional data determines the amount of thunder strikes and the frequency lightning bolts.
