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A farmer describes the scene when Khushboo Bind was killed by lightning in the adjacent paddy field on July 25, at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of ...
This is the terrifying moment a lightning bolt struck a forest area in India's Himachal Pradesh. The video was filmed in a suburb of Shimla called Chhota Shimla on June 3.
Twenty-four people have died by lightning strikes and about 23 have been left injured in rain-related incidents in the western Indian state of Gujarat over the past two days, government officials ...
This gives Lake Maracaibo the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in the world, at 250. [6] The region with the second-most is the village Kifuka, in the mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [7] where the elevation is around 1,700 metres (5,600 ft), receives 232 lightning strikes per square kilometer (600 per ...
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.
The lightning may be too far away to discern individual flashes. Smooth channel lightning is an informal term referring to a type of cloud-to-ground lightning strike that has no visible branching and appears like a line with smooth curves as opposed to the jagged appearance of most lightning channels. They are a form of positive lightning ...
More than three dozen lightning fatalities were recorded in a span of 24 hours across India on Sunday as the country's monsoon season continues to ramp up. Nearly a dozen of Sunday's deaths ...
Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1] Side splash makes up about a third of cases and occurs when lightning strikes nearby and jumps through the air to the person. [1]