Nonstop lightning show lit up Florida skies Monday night. Here's what people were seeing

June's wild weather continues with a spectacular lightning show that swept across much of Florida Monday night, just in time for National Lighting Safety Awareness Week. Floridians in the path of the severe thunderstorms were treated to a dramatic, seemingly endless display of flashing lights.

According to the National Weather Service in Melbourne, a system that came in from the Panhandle interacted with a sea breeze sitting near I-95 to produce high winds and strong storms. Flights in multiple airports were delayed.

Severe weather is expected to continue hitting the Southeast U.S. this week as summertime heat and plenty of moisture along the Gulf Coast is expected to create more heavy showers and thunderstorms, according to AccuWeather.

Nonstop lighting strikes Florida Monday night

Lightning capital of the world?

Not quite. Lake Maracaibo in northwestern Venezuela takes the prize for lightning capital with an average flash rate of 389 per day, according to NASA Earth Observatory, and an area in Africa on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo is a close second. But in the United States, we're No. 1. And in Florida, the area between Tampa Bay on the west coast and Cape Canaveral on the east (known as Lightning Alley) gets the most bolts.

 USA TODAY reports Florida leads the nation in lightning deaths with 85 since 2006.