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2. 1,000 rapid-fire lightning strikes spark California wildfires ...

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   Eastern Fresno County saw the highest concentration of the lightning, with more than 1,000 strikes in just three hours Monday, when at least five brush fires ignited, according to the California ...

3. Lightning injury - Wikipedia

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   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]

4. There's more lightning strikes now. Here's how to stay safe ...

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   Lightning strikes growing in the United States. Vaisala Xweather, which tracks lightning, is tallied just over 242 million bolts of lightning in the U.S. in 2023. The company tells USA TODAY that ...

5. Top 3 lightning videos of 2024 - AOL

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   The top spot goes to an astonishing video that dispels the common myth that lightning never strikes the same place twice. In reality, the Willis Tower in Chicago is the most frequently struck U.S ...

6. Distribution of lightning - Wikipedia

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   The high lightning areas are on land located in the tropics. Areas with almost no lightning are the Arctic and Antarctic, closely followed by the oceans which have only 0.1 to 1 strikes/km 2 /yr. The map on the right shows that lightning is not distributed evenly around the planet. [5] About 70% of lightning occurs on land in the Tropics, where ...

7. CZU Lightning Complex fires - Wikipedia

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   [1] [3] These lightning strikes initially started fires separately known as the Warnella Fire, near Davenport and the Waddell Fire, near Waddell Creek, as well as three fires on what would become the northern edge of the CZU Complex fire. Two days after the fires began, a change in wind conditions caused these three northern fires to rapidly ...

8. Can lightning travel through plumbing? Here’s how to stay ...

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   Here’s how to stay safe when lightning strikes. When thunder rumbles, lightning isn’t far behind. About 25 million times a year, lightning strikes the United States, according to the National ...

9. Firefighters respond to lightning caused blaze Wednesday near ...

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   The U.S. Forest Service is responding to a lightning-caused fire in the Lincoln National Forest, officials said Wednesday. Burning on East Mountain in the Smokey Bear Ranger District, the fire was ...