Also found in:Thesaurus,Medical,Encyclopedia. n 1.(Veterinary Science) a discharge of lightning between a cloud and the earth, esp one that causes damage 2.(Veterinary Science)vet sciencesudden death due to being struck by lightning, esp of cattle, horses or sheep ...
the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) estimates that within the US, 100 fatalities and 400–500 injuries requiring medical treatment occur from lightning strikes every year. Approximately 10% of people who are struck by lightning are killed, the...
Each year, 50 casualties and hundreds of injuries result from lightning strikes in the United States [1]. The importance of forecasting lightning for the safety of the public is crucial, as well as cost effective for outdoor businesses [2]. Most deaths occur before or mainly after peak ...
Houses destroyed as lightning strikes spark new fires amid Victorian heatwave • Feb. 3, 2025, 7:16 AM ET (ABC News (Australia)) lightning, the visible discharge of electricity that occurs when a region of a cloud acquires an excess electrical charge, either positive or negative, that is...
lightning activity year-round is greatest over continental areas in the tropics, particularly in South America, Africa, and Australasia. Lightning strikes in the higher latitudes rise during the spring and summer months (May–September in the Northern Hemisphere and November–March in the Southern Hem...
Each year, lightning strikes kill people, livestock, and wildlife. Each year lightning is also responsible for billions of dollars in damage to buildings, communication systems, power lines, and electrical equipment. In addition, lightning costs airlines billions of dollars per year in flight reroutin...
It is the measure of lightning strikes per kilometre square per year in the particular area. Higher the lighting strike density, higher the probability of lightning strike which needs higher level of lightning protection level. Danger for People (h) ...
The expression "lightning never strikes twice" is questioned in this paper because, among the randomness of lightning impacts, some spots are hit even more than twice year after year. This article introduces the recurrent lightning spots (RLS) concept, which are locations periodically impacted by ...
(of the order of 1 megavolt per meter [MV/m]) must be generated in a volume that is relatively small but is above a certain critical size; at the same time, there must be an electric field in a substantial portion of the cloud whose intensity is sufficienty to sustain the discharge ...
Eighteen other countries in the world on six continents have now followed suit, including Brazil, Colombia, Rwanda, Pakistan and Argentina which have some of the greatest frequency of lightning strikes in the world…300 days per year in Rwanda, 270 days per year in Colombia, for 8 hours per...