(NEWSER) – Bad news for us landlubbers: Lightning strikes more often here than it does on water, NASA reports. And things are particularly bad near the equator. In fact, some 90% of lightning on Earth strikes between the 38th parallels south and north, LiveScience reports. Want more specifics? A new NASA map reveals where lightning strikes occur most frequently, and Discovery reports the two top spots. One is northwestern Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, which gets major storms thanks to local heat, humidity, and windiness. According to an io9 report from a few years ago, the area's residents experience so much lightning that they need to shut their blinds 300 nights per year; each night brings