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Lightning strikes, and the damage they cause, are on the rise, USA TODAY is reporting. This week -- June 23-29 -- is Lightning Awareness Week , and the National Weather Service has advice on how ...
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Fire crews were called to a lightning strike which damaged the roof (pictured) at a residential care home in Alleyne Way, Elmer, at 1.44am today (Thursday). No fire was found and residents have ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...