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Global map of lightning frequency--strikes/km 2 /yr. 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]
Direct strike: lightning directly hits the person Orifice entry: may occur if lightning strike occurs near the head entering eyes, ears and mouth to flow internally; Side splash: lightning jumps from the location of primary strike to a nearby person; Contact injury: injury that occurs when a person is touching an object on the pathway of lightning
A similar cloud-to-cloud strike consisting of a brief flash over a small area, appearing like a blip, also occurs in a similar area of rotating updrafts. [18] Superbolts are rather loosely defined as strikes with a source energy of more than 100 gigajoule [100 GJ] (most lightning strikes come in at around 1 gigajoule [1 GJ]). Events of this ...
The Weather Channel 18 minutes ago Dual Winter Storms To Blanket Plains, Midwest And Northeast With Snow And Ice This Week. New week, more snow and ice for the Northeast, Midwest and Plains.
Triple Threat Storm Tracker: Live radars, alert maps, snow and rain totals A powerful storm system will bring a mix of snow, rain and severe weather to the central and eastern U.S. this weekend ...
New data shows Texas saw the highest number of lightning strikes in the U.S. last year.
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.
USA TODAY 13 hours ago ... 7.6-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Cayman Islands; Tsunami Advisory Canceled. ... Winter storm live tracker: Snowfall maps, current alerts, weather warnings, ice ...