Their moods may change, they may suffer from depression, they may not be the same person that they were before the lightning struck them," Jensenius said. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Teen who survived lightning strike waiting for 'powers' to kick in. Lightning strikes illuminate New York City skyline. Comments 0. Top Stories. This charge can be so powerful that it repels electrons, negatively charged particles, on the ground beneath it, causing the ground to become positively charged.
As an insanely strong electrical field roils in the cloud above, an intense attraction builds between the cloud and the ground. Lightning is the runaway force that discharges this field.
It races toward the ground at nearly , kilometers per hour, striking the ground with a power of kV, up to times stronger than an industrial shock. It can even exceed the power of a nuclear reactor. When the lightning hits the ground, it causes a trail of plasma that lights the sky with those telltale zigzags of blueish white light that we see as lightning. As the lightning strikes and then exits your body, it will leave you with deep wounds, often accompanied with third degree burns.
Your hair and clothing might singe or catch fire. Your cl othes might even be shredded by the explosive force of the surrounding air being superheated to up to 50, degrees F five times hotter than the surface of the sun. If you happen to be wearing any metal objects, like necklaces or a piercings, they could channel the electric current, superheating and searing your skin.
And if the lightning exits through your feet, the force could literally knock your shoes off. Blood vessels bursting from the electric discharge and heat might create something called a Lichtenberg figure on your skin.
For more information, visit Lightning Strikes: Information for Workers. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link. Natural Disasters and Severe Weather. Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Lightning: Victim Data. Minus Related Pages. This is known as the ground current. Anyone outside near a lightning strike is potentially a victim of ground current. In addition, ground current can travels in garage floors with conductive materials.
Because the ground current affects a much larger area than the other causes of lightning casualties, the ground current causes the most lightning deaths and injuries. Ground current also kills many farm animals. The greater the distance between contact points, the greater the potential for death or serious injury. Because large farm animals have a relatively large body-span, ground current from a nearby lightning strike is often fatal to livestock.
Lightning can travel long distances in wires or other metal surfaces.
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