gov/mlbl/BBX.html shows a radar section with lightning data overlayed (white dots). See the white dots extending out from the core of the storm to the right – about 17km away from the back of the storm?
A helmeted bicyclist experienced a lightning strike to the head under fair weather conditions with a cloudless sky. It was determined that the bolt probably originated in a thunderstorm that was about 16km away and obscured by mountains. Lightning strikes the ground approximately 25 million times each year in the U.S. According to the NWS, the chance of an individual in the U.S. being killed or injured during a given year is one in 240,000. Assuming an average life span of 80 years, a person’s odds over their lifetime becomes one in 3000. Assuming the average person has ten family members and others with whom they are close, then the chances are one in 300 that a lightning strike will closely affect a person during their lifetime. What type of electricity is lightning? Lightning is an electrostatic discharge accompanied by the emission of visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. How many volts and watts are in lightning? Lightning can have 100 million to 1 billion vo
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- gov/mlbl/BBX.html shows a radar section with lightning data overlayed (white dots). See the white dots extending out from the core of the storm to the right – about 17km away from the back of the storm?
- gov/mlb/BBX.html shows a radar section with lightning data overlayed (white dots). See the white dots extending out from the core of the storm to the right – about 17km away from the back of the storm?
- The weather data shows "N/A"- what does that mean?
