Lightning in Northeast Bangladesh: Relation with climatic variables, consequences and adaptation

In Bangladesh, the lightning during a thunderstorm has recently been officially declared as natural disaster, resulting in numerous fatalities each year, especially country's northeast. This study aims to look into relationships between and climatic variables, spatial distribution of deaths, people's perceptions disaster's consequences adaptation measures, influencing factors that make people victims Sunamganj District. Several statistical approaches, such descriptive statistics, correlation, Mann-Kendall Test, were used meet objectives by examining time series data events, household survey data. The imply strikes have positive statistically significant relationship with variables temperature, rainfall, humidity, air pressure. Moreover, may become more common future increase. perceived include disruption human life, injury, damage or burning environmental infrastructural elements, etc. Going outside and/or remaining are primary contributing tragic accident. Those who engaged income-generating activities monsoon, like agricultural operations Boro Rice farming fishing, most vulnerable this hazard. Therefore, several strategies, including house safety facilitating emergency shelter; assisting victim families for recovery rehabilitation; travelling covered vehicles thunderstorm; disseminating knowledge about proper movement thunderstorm, first aid information initial treatment through awareness building campaign should be implemented reduce number casualties.