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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 ...
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 ...
A series of lightning strikes spidered across the New York City skyline the evening of Saturday, April 1, a few of which stretched from the World Trade Center into the clouds above in a dazzling ...
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]
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 generally observed in or near the convective regions of severe ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two people were taken to the hospital Saturday after lightning struck a tree near a home along a golf course that is hosting the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship. The home is just north of the ...