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Other physical injury can be caused by objects damaged or thrown by the lightning strike. For example, lightning striking a nearby tree may vaporize sap, and the steam explosion often causes bark and wood fragments to be explosively ejected. Lightning strikes can also induce a transient paralysis known as 'keraunoparalysis'. [3]
Early morning on August 16, when the first thunderstorms hit, around 2,500 lightning strikes hit the Bay Area, with 200 strikes happening in 30 minutes at one point, which the National Weather Service office in Bay Area labelled as "insane". [16] Within the next 72–96 hours, over 12,000 lightning strikes were recorded over Northern California.
The 2020 Dome Fire was a large and ecologically destructive wildfire in the Mojave National Preserve in California's San Bernardino County.Caused by a lightning strike on August 15, the fire began near Cima Dome (a geological formation for which the fire was named) and exhibited rapid growth over the following 36 hours, aided by weather conditions and a lack of available firefighting resources.
A Colorado man was killed by a lightning strike on his ranch Saturday, marking the first lightning-caused death in 2024. The ranch is located near Rand, about 120 miles northwest of Denver.
Here are a few tips to keep you safe when lightning strikes.
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Widespread wind damage was observed, and the highest wind gust observed was 39.2 metres per second (141 km/h; 88 mph). Local flooding in some places was also reported, together with power outages from lightning strikes & severe wind. As of october 19, 2022, 173 severe weather reports were reported as a result of the derecho. [121]
Two months after a storm that dropped a year's rainfall in a single day, visitors to the national park are encountering a a strange place made stranger — and more majestic.