BOSTON (CBS) - A lightning strike briefly knocked out power to the building housing WBZ-TV and WBZ NewsRadio 1030. Both stations were on the air as thunder rocked the building. WBZ-TV Chief Meteorologist Todd Gutner was forced to finish his forecast in the dark. About 19 seconds into the...
Fig. 2:From video of a distant cloud-to-ground strike near Gothenburg, Nebraska: Frames 1 through 4 show the stepped leader descending, Frame 5 shows the intense first return stroke, Frame 6 shows the decaying first return stroke. This lightning flash was not only very distant (over ten mi...
For example, the High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) Calibrated Thunder guidance produces probabilities that represent the likelihood of at least one cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning strike within 12 miles (20 km) of a point location over a 4-h forecast period.47 This guidance generates ...
“We’d advise everyone to check the weather forecast before starting a walk. If you hear thunder, see lightning or if your hair stands on end, put off activities even if the sky looks blue and clear.Lightningwill strike as far as 10 miles away from any rainfall.Lightningcan strike the ...
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No Sign of Sunshine Forever In the International Forecast;Lightning Seems Unlikely to Strike TwiceAndrew Beyer
Because — unsurprisingly — the truth is that (1) people are fairly adept at drinking water, (2) human combustion isn't even scientifically proven and (3) while lightning can indeed strike on a lovely day, it's fairly unlikely you'd be hit. In the sense that, you know, it'...
Minko Nikolov, 32, suffered a near-fatal lightning strike while scouting a bouldering objective in Rocky Mountain National Park in August 2019.
The bottom line: lightning is unpredictable. In fact, it doesn't even always strike the tallest thing around. Sometimes itstrikes the ground near the tallest thing around. Don't worry, being hit by lightning is extremely rare I can't imagine that the chances of surviving such a huge amount...
California is burning and smoke has covered the northern half of the state and is spreading across the U.S. Most of the fires were started by a huge “lightning siege” that started on August 15th. How unusual was this massive lightning event? That question will be answered below. ...