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  2. Lightning - Wikipedia

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    Lightning is a natural phenomenon, more specifically an atmospheric electrical phenomenon. It consists of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions, either both existing within the atmosphere or one within the atmosphere and one on the ground, with these regions then becoming partially or wholly electrically neutralized.

  3. Lightning injury - Wikipedia

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    A person who was affected by a nearby lightning strike. Note the slight branching redness traveling up the victim's leg from the effects of the current. Common injuries caused by lightning include: muscle pains, broken bones, cardiac arrest, confusion, hearing loss, seizures, burns, behavioral changes, and ocular cataracts.

  4. Extreme weather post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Examples of extreme weather events include tropical storms, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, and floods. These events have been growing in frequency in the past few decades due to climate change. With this growing frequency, it will increase the effects of these events onto humans and society in the future. [3]

  5. What caused 78 mph wind speeds in Bloomington last night? - AOL

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    The NWS Storm Prediction Center shows a marginal risk of continued severe weather today, meaning isolated thunderstorms are possible but would likely be lower in intensity and duration. Reach ...

  6. Thunderstorm - Wikipedia

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    Thunderstorm asthma is the triggering of an asthma attack by environmental conditions directly caused by a local thunderstorm. During a thunderstorm, pollen grains can absorb moisture and then burst into much smaller fragments with these fragments being easily dispersed by wind.

  7. Severe weather - Wikipedia

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    A squall line is an elongated line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front. [35] [36] The squall line typically contains heavy precipitation, hail, frequent lightning, strong straight line winds, and possibly tornadoes or waterspouts. [37]

  8. Climate change made Hurricane Milton worse, scientists say - AOL

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    The brutal wind and torrential rainfall of Hurricane Milton that killed 16 people in Florida this week were worsened by human-caused climate change, a team of international scientists said on Friday.

  9. List of lightning phenomena - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] Positive clear-air strikes can occur in highly sheared environments where the upper positive charge region becomes horizontally displaced from the precipitation area. [12] Cloud-to-air lightning is a lightning flash in which one end of a bidirectional leader exits the cloud, but does not result in a ground flash. Such flashes can ...