Most Powerful Forces on Earth: Lightning | Fatal Forecast | Free Documentary

Alien is one of the

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spectacular and potentially deadly manifestations of nature, it is unpredictable,

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and strikes with unfathomable frequency, there are between six and eight million

lightning

strikes that occur around the world every day, but

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really is in its

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basic sense, as it is a giant spark that is happening. between two cargo areas in a storm cloud, while natural disasters such as

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quakes and cyclones can claim more lives each year, the effects of lightning can last a lifetime, as electricity travels through the body, it can have significant impacts on people's circulatory and nervous systems. with which it comes into contact there are side effects that can be permanent on a neurological level with notable damage to the spinal cord and paraparetic damage to both lower extremities, which makes it very difficult for people to walk again, but how is it created? exactly the lightning?

Are there any positive effects? The benefits of this extraordinary phenomenon, paradoxically, although dangerous, are a condition of life on the planet. If we didn't have more lightning, we would die. Lightning is one of the most

powerful

phenomena on Earth. Each impact travels at a speed of approximately 128,000 kilometers per hour. Second, that's half the speed of light and temperatures can reach almost 28,000 degrees Celsius. These dangerous finger-width ships are also one of nature's most recurring spectacles. Lightning strikes billions of times in around the world each year with temperatures higher than the surface of the Sun and thousands of amperes of current, between six and eight million lightning bolts strike every day around the world, which is equivalent to an average of 100 lightning bolts per second somewhere of the world.

Lightning strikes abroad cause more than 4,000 deaths a year. year, more than a third of those incidents affect people who work outdoors, such as farmers, are those who engage in outdoor recreational activities when there is a golf tournament, as soon as lightning strikes, the tournament stops because if the person points his club towards the sky there is a good chance that he will be struck by lightning thanks at the PGA Tours Western open in 1975 five professional golfers were struck by lightning, all survived while in some cases the injuries put jeopardizing their career, for others injuries ended their career Today most golf courses are equipped with lightning detection or early warning technology that allows course officials to suspend play if there is lightning activity in the area;

However, those same systems are not in place for all outdoor sports, which becomes a big problem for me. I'm the

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er for the Indians and I'm trying to tell you guys there's a big storm coming, you've got to put it out, we can't put it out until the Empire says we can put it out, so I sit and cringe and pray that nothing happens. Organized sports are a particular concern due to the large number of people gathered. It is very rare for lightning to affect only one person in a crowd. Ground currents account for approximately 50 to 55 percent of all lightning deaths and injuries and can affect several people at once.

More people are struck by what is known as ground current when lightning strikes nearby and the electricity travels. through the ground and then comes into contact with the person thanks on September 16, 2019 in Kingston, Jamaica, a high school football. The match is interrupted when lightning strikes nearby, sending several players and a referee to the ground. You see people playing soccer and suddenly you hear a crash and everyone is stiff on the ground, so it didn't hit anyone but the lightning. The ground and propagates through the ground When lightning containing at least 20,000 amperes of current strikes the ground, electricity propagates through the moist ground, which acts as a highly charged conductor, although the voltage decreases with distance , remains a potentially deadly current. capable of traveling several hundred meters from the point of contact occurred at a football match when lightning struck nearby and the electricity traveled through the wet ground and up through the legs of the football players and the referee, as As electricity travels through the body, it can have significant impacts. in the circulatory and nervous systems of people with whom it comes into contact when electricity enters the body, it causes a short circuit in the electrical signals that keep the heart, lungs and nervous system functioning smoothly, that interruption can cause cardiac arrest , seizures or a host of other life-threatening illnesses. pathologies there is a noise that sounds like thunder and the noise can cause rupture of the eardrum and sometimes permanent defense there are sequelae that can be permanent at a neurological level with notable spinal cord damage and paraparesis damage in both lower limbs which makes it very difficult People return to walk One of the players is admitted to the hospital after complaining of chest pain and is discharged the next day.

Several players and some spectators report eye pain. Another player who does not respond to on-field treatment is carried away on a stretcher. He survives but is unable to speak or move his left side. What is least resistant to electricity is the central nervous system, central and peripheral nervous system. All it takes is a bolt of lightning that passes through a nerve and the nerve is paralyzed. Strange damage can also be caused by a different type of strike called side flash, it is the second most common cause of casualties and injuries after ground current, in some cases you can be hit by what is known as side flash and that occurs when you are standing under an object or near an object. that has been struck by lightning and electricity jumps from that object towards you in Dalian, China, a Dalian weather television presenter is covering a storm from the roof of a multi-story building when lightning filled the sky feeling a discharges into his forearm and he falls. his umbrella and reports numbness in one of his hands with the reporter in China, it was possible that lightning struck the fence he was standing near and the electricity traveled through his body now, when that happens, you can suffer damage to nerves because there is a lot of electricity flowing through your body at that time.

Damage to the nerves could cause tingling or numbness in the hand. Moist soil and metal are powerful conductors of electricity and so are living trees because of their content. of sap and water seeking shelter under a tree during a storm can be especially dangerous two and I think many people are unaware of that risk because they have not been directly struck by it before, unfortunately, specifically with lightning when you are struck on March 12, 2021, Autumn gardeners in gurugram India take shelter under a tree during a storm when they are indirectly hit and knocked unconscious, most people lean against a tree with their backs against the tree, this provides a direct path from the tree up to the person's chest, which can then interfere with the respiratory system and impact the heart, victims are immediately taken to the hospital where they are treated for burns as the electricity passes through the body and causes burns not necessarily due directly to the electricity but because of the energy inside it it can melt objects that you may have and when you get a burn it is absolutely necessary to empty your pockets because it can melt the keys, for example, that are in your pockets and burn your legs very, very intensely, like buttons, like anything metallic can cause burns, the third most common type of lightning, they are called rising leaders, also known as streamer lightning.

It happens that there is a leader descending from the cloud and he is looking for a place to strike. The ascending streamers emanate from objects on the ground and then come into contact with the descending leader creating that lightning-filled throat. An ascending streamer contains electricity and can in fact electrocute someone. While lightning can cause significant bodily damage, its emotional effects cannot be underestimated. Depressive syndrome and fatigue affect 50% of people without knowing why, but we pass by. a state of good health to a state of poor health so we cry and grieving is difficult to If you are young or old, you become ill or even incapacitated on some occasions, so you may inevitably become depressed to ensure the best chance of safety. .

Experts recommend implementing a very important rule when Thunder Rollers go indoors and whether you are on land or in the water, the safest place to be during a thunderstorm is not actually outside, so whether you Whether you are in water or on land during a storm, you should immediately find a lightning-safe location, and a lightning-safe location is a completely enclosed metal vehicle. like a car or a modern building that normally has electricity and plumbing through the walls, if you have a complete building with plumbing and electricity, it is a fairly safe building because any lightning charge that enters that building will probably be carried through of the electrical system. o Placing plumbing lines in the ground and dissipating inside a normal hardtop car is also relatively safe and that is actually because the car itself acts as what is called a Faraday cage, which is a box of giant metal and therefore any current that interacts with it.

Being transported around the outside of that metal box or Faraday cage, but in an area not prone to thunderstorms, the shock and awe of a lightning spectacle is simply too irresistible to ignore. Thousands flock outside to catch a first-hand glimpse of a rare, electrifying spectacle. Despite warnings to stay indoors, there is a saying that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, massive storms create lightning at least 300 days a year, lightning They can occur up to a thousand times in an hour, allowing you to win them. a special distinction as the hardest hit place on Earth because the region contains all the necessary ingredients for the perfect storm: you have to have this warm, moist air that can be lifted into the atmosphere with high levels of instability and stability when the atmosphere cools faster than the air rising into the atmosphere when there is more humid air and a lot of atmospheric instability, as occurs in the tropics of South America, in Africa and Southeast Asia, these prolific thunderstorms can occur that produce thousands or millions of lightning strikes over the course of a year, the unique topography of Lake Maracaibo contributes to the formation of these storms.

The Caribbean Sea flows into the lake providing an endless supply of warm water, while the Tropical Sun draws in additional moisture in the evening. Strong winds whip the surrounding mountains, forcing hot air upward. the cumulonimbus clouds of the troposphere are full of water droplets at a certain altitude, those water droplets become ice due to gravitation, this ice will then tend to descend and through friction it will generate electricity, we have a separation of electrical charges, particles charged that will actually produce electricity within this cloud, a positive charge builds up at the top of the cloud while a negative charge builds up at the bottom.

The electric charges between these opposites eventually grow enough to overcome the air's resistance to electrical flow and sparks begin to fly, the first signs of life actually. Start with the activity inside the cloud, these are sparks that will occur inside our cloud and then after a while this activity inside the cloud will spread towards the ground and thus reach the Earth. The negative charge at the bottom of the storm cloud moves toward the ground forming an invisible path called a step leader. The path of the charge connects with positive charges arising from the ground completing an electrical circuit.

This is what we call a lightning bolt. In more scientific terms the return arc. While most people are familiar with lightning striking the ground, it only represents a small portion of what storm clouds actually create and makes up about 10 to 30 percent of most thunderstorms; The other 70 to 90 percent of lightning in a storm is actually known as cloud lightning that occurs within the cloud itself, between multiple clouds, or from the cloud in the air although Lake Maracaibo lightning is exceptional countries. Nearby Brazil and Argentina have lightning records of their own October 31, 2018 over the night sky of Porto Alegre Brazil a single lightning bolt pierces the atmosphere stretching from the southern tip of the country more than 700 kilometers or 440 miles to the edge of Argentina, a few miles long, the lightning that struck, left, and traveled 440 miles was primarily intra-cloud lightning that occurred in a convective systemmesoscale.

The mesoscale convective system is a very large complex. of thunderstorms that can extend for hundreds or thousands of miles, the clouds in these giant systems have the potential to create large amounts of electrical energy and because they occur in large complexes, there is a lot of electricity traveling through all the clouds and the Lightning wants to dissipate that charge and become a neutral state and you want to have a cloud that has no charge, so when there is a lot of electrical charge, there is a good chance that lightning will travel through the clouds and a lot of people.

Think about spider lightning and that's the horizontal beam that you see extending along the bottom of the clouds and it's trying to consume all the electrical charge in these big clouds. Another unprecedented attack occurred in central Argentina on March 4, 2019. It lost 16.73 seconds and is the longest lightning strike recorded in Argentina. It was another very long lasting cloud streak and lasted over 15 seconds again. This was in a metallic scale convective system. Many of these occur in South America and the Great Plains of North America, the Great Plains state of Oklahoma is in fact the previous record holder for the longest flash in distance, it occurred in 2007, it was 321 kilometers long.

Long, the record for longest duration is held by a lightning bolt that shone over Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur France in 2012 for just under eight seconds. It draws a line between Bordeaux and Strasbourg and the south of this line corresponds to the point most struck by the lightning bolt. It occurs most frequently in Italy and France, and France sees thunderstorms 250 days a year in certain areas such as the southeast of France, periods of the so-called Mediterranean storms occur, the famous storms that we used to call savannahs and that, on the other hand, occur at late summer and usually in September, an episode of seven, consists of very violent and highly localized storms that form when warm, humid air from the Mediterranean heads north towards France, when it hits the Saven mountains, it is found with cold air at high altitudes, resulting in thunderstorms.

These stones usually occur in autumn and In September 2002 can last several hours. A stationary storm produced lightning for more than 10 hours. The inhabitants of Neem saw non-stop lightning. Society The stationary storms in Neem, like those in South America, were also part of a mesoscale convection system. In the event of catastrophic flash flooding and at least a lightning kill on the other end of the spectrum, both the north and south poles are the least likely to see thunderstorms. You need to follow the basic recipe of a rapid rise of warm, moist air colliding with cold, dry air above, but at high latitudes, warmer, moist air is much less common;

Those ingredients are also less common on the west coast of the United States, particularly California, which typically doesn't see much lightning in a given year; The Pacific Ocean and its cold waters near the western coast of the United States helped prevent the development of thunderstorms, so when lightning occurs in Southern California or the Bay Area or other California ports that do not typically prone to lightning, receives a lot of attention in February and March 2019. Southern California is Hit by a series of storms, they have generated a weather event known as an atmospheric river, one of the Earth's conveyor belts that moves the heat and humidity from the equator towards the poles, an atmospheric river of high humidity that came from the Pacific Ocean to the west. coast of the United States associated with this river of moisture were strong winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere that helped trigger a large number of showers and thunderstorms that produced much rain over a two-week period in southern California, in addition From all of this rain came thunderstorms, so in a thunderstorm when you have all this rising air you have all kinds of things rubbing together and that creates an electrical charge and that electrical charge needs an external outlet.

On March 5, these powerful storms produce an unusual and enormous amount of lightning that is seen from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, a distance covering more than 145 kilometers. 2,000 cloud flashes and a thousand cloud strikes to the ground are reported in just a matter of two hours, making for a significant lightning event like this. where there were 2,000 lightning strikes that occurred in just a couple of hours represent a significant portion of Southern California's annual lightning strikes in a very small period of time, this can have significant impacts on the region, including power outages that can hurt or kill people.

If they were struck by lightning and even started forest fires, this rare lightning spectacle becomes a nighttime spectacle. Thousands of amazed residents flock outside to capture the event on their cell phones. The Weather Service issues warnings on social media for residents to come inside, I believe. The important thing about thunder and lightning is that, being aware of it, people adopt very arrogant attitudes when there is a storm around, many people want to go out and watch the storm instead of taking cover, and that is quite annoying. As a meteorologist I appreciate and understand that power and I want to tell people about that power but they are fascinated by it they want to go see it fortunately no injuries or deaths are reported but several areas suffer power outages some small forest fires ignite and shortly after a plane takes off gets hit and is forced to land, you don't want to fly a plane into a storm, it's a bad idea to begin with, but they are designed to be able to handle that if it ends up When flying to an area where there could be lightning, planes are Isolated from lightning, the electricity actually travels around the body of the plane, so for the most part planes are safe from lightning when they occur and the plane's electronics are not affected, while storms always do. do. lightning lightning does not always need a thunderstorm there is perhaps no better example than the fascinating lightning spectacle created by the great volcanic eruption on January 12, 2020. thank you June 4, 2020 lightning strikes the Washington Monument in 168 meters high in Washington DC injuring two nationals The guards are part of a very large storm that actually injured some people.

As a result, we went back and analyzed the data and found that the Washington Monument is hit between one and five times a year on average. On May 28, 2018, the Eiffel Tower. A tower with a height of 324 meters is struck by lightning while storms devastate the entire country. It is estimated that between five and six lightning strikes the Eiffel Tower every year. The Empire State Building in New York City is hit about 25 times a year. Do these structures withstand such massive electrical loads? Is there any truth to the myth that lightning always strikes the eyes of the tallest object?

You will have a cup of tea to attract him; However, the day lightning strikes a few hundred meters away, you can legitimately wonder why this lightning didn't hit the Eiffel Tower and that's a matter of probability: the higher an object is in the sky, the closer it is. will be away from the electricity source and the more likely they will be to be hit by objects as tall as the television. Antennas, wind turbines or large buildings may be impacted more frequently than others. Just because there is a tall object doesn't mean that that will be the lightning strike.

The entire lightning event occurs at approximately 200,000 miles per hour and jumps at approximately 50 meters. per step in the lightning process, any object that was hit released an upward current of electricity that was able to interact with the lightning's descending leader before another upward current, so it doesn't always have to be the tallest object, it's the object which released the electricity that came into contact with the lightning first, however, because toll structures and buildings are more prone to lightning, they have been designed to resist it. Skyscrapers have long been designed to be able to withstand lightning because they are so tall.

Objects attract lightning very well normally, if you look at the top of a skyscraper you'll see a bunch of little lightning rods sticking out as part of the lightning rods and as far as some charge dissipation, what happens is it's an area for focuses that current and then takes that current and then conducts it around the building and to ground, so that if the building is hit, there is no risk to anything inside the building. The principle of a lightning rod is to capture this electricity and then conduct it along the ground. So that its effect is harmless to both the facilities and the people, in the case of the Eiffel Tower, imagine that this structure is completely metallic, that is, when the lightning current propagates, it will actually follow the metallic structure of the Eiffel Tower. and therefore inside the Eiffel Tower.

Most people will be protected, although toll structures may be more susceptible to lightning, the fact is that lightning can strike anywhere, it is not possible to determine with certainty whether lightning will strike this or that street, for example. For example, or rather on another Street or worse still, on this or that building or on the one that makes it dangerous, lightning can even strike at a distance of between 40 and 80 kilometers from the main storm; There are some cases where the anvil of a storm can be pushed too far downwind of the actual storm. center of the storm and you get lightning at a distance of 25 to 50 miles, but that is very rare.

These rays are known as a bolt from the blue. Sometimes you get a lot of electricity near the top or side of a storm cloud, as the electricity appears to The discharge itself sometimes finds the point of discharge to be miles away from the storm that occurs like lightning. fallen from the sky. Typically, these lightning bolts travel 9 to 16 kilometers from the storm. They are also much stronger than lightning striking directly from a storm cloud. Because there are greater distances between the source of electricity, the storm, and the point of discharge, it is necessary to have more powerful lightning to bridge that distance and cause that lightning, although blue lightning occurs miles away from the lightning cloud. storm, are still caused. by a storm a storm produces lightning because that is the very definition of a storm, that is, for the World Meteorological Organization a storm is simply a phenomenon in which at least one electric arc will occur, however, lightning itself does not They are as dependent as they are not always. need a storm to cause sparks, planes can trigger their own lightning and this occurs when a plane takes off and flies through a charged area of ​​the atmosphere, it receives an electrical charge on the outer body of the plane and as it continues to fly at through regions with different amounts of electrical charge, it attempts to dissipate the charge and that can trigger its own lightning.

Flash, you can drag your feet on a rug and hit someone. That's static electricity and that's where things get going in the atmosphere, on a large scale, lightning can even happen in severe snow storms, this phenomenon is often known as a blizzard and is actually caused by high temperatures. television towers or wind turbines because they are closer to the base of the clouds in the winter and because there is an electrical charge at the base of the cloud. and there is electrical charge, so near the top of these wind turbines or these television towers you can get a discharge that is known as storm snow, perhaps the best known cases of non-storm lightning come from volcanoes.

Volcanic lightning is extremely exciting because it combines two of the greatest powers on the planet, volcanoes and lightning, volcanic lightning is similar but different to meteorological lightning. In a volcanic eruption, you have an explosion of ash, magma, tephra and sometimes even water in this volcanic eruption, and as all those particles collide in the eruptive plume you get static charges that are then discharged add volcanic lightning before 12 January 2020 The tall volcano in the Philippines was a large caldera filled with a picturesque tiled lake whose surface area of ​​267 square kilometers sank to a depth of 172 meters after 40 years of dormancy, the volcano suddenly woke up Bursting across the lake and throwing ashes into the stratosphere inside this gigantic column an ​​incredible lightning show unfolds.

The explosion causes billions of superhot ejected particles to collide and then separate. Furthermore, the plume reaches so high into the icy stratosphere that water is expelled during the explosion. it turns into ice crystals turning the explosion into a dirty storm and this was a

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magmatic eruption and what that means is that there was a lot of water in addition to the magma that erupted because actually a tall volcano is in the middle of a lake. As a result of the water, magma and ash rising through the atmosphere there was avery dramatic explosion of volcanic lightning.

Volcanic lightning is not uncommon, but the amount found in Tall's powerful eruption was out of the ordinary. More than thirty thousand lightning bolts were detected in the large eruption over the course of 15 hours, but despite the incredible number of lightning bolts, the tall volcano did not break the record in late December 2018, a Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia erupted and produced the largest number of volcanic lightning events we have ever seen on record: more than 300,000 lightning events were detected over the course of a week in that volcanic eruption. It certainly provides us with an astonishing spectacle, but volcanic lightning not only causes shock and awe, it is actually a useful tool for meteorologists.

It is extremely interesting to study volcanic lightning as lightning bolts. Scientifically, it provides more information about what actually happens in the volcanic eruption and can also help us better understand meteorological lightning because we don't have to identify where lightning can potentially occur because it will occur right there during that volcanic eruption. Instrumentation around volcanoes allows us to directly measure and study certain aspects of the lightning process, whether it is the electrification of the ash cloud before the lightning strike or the exact path the lightning takes through the ash cloud. In turn, those studies help with public safety.

It is important to understand the exact process of how lightning develops and how it is produced so that we can use it to better understand when lightning will occur in meteorological instances, which will improve weather

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s, improve lightning forecasts, and improve lightning safety. . Lightning can also occur within another type of natural disaster the wildfire in August 2020 the state of California is besieged by wildfires but these fires are not only the result of lightning, they are also the cause August 2020 the state of California is on fire with wildfires more than 4 million acres are charred forcing mass evacuations it is the largest wildfire season ever recorded in California history the core of the crisis is dry lightning that strikes 11,000 times over the course than 72 hours and it simply doesn't rain enough to put out the sparks, dry lightning occurs when a storm produces very little precipitation but a lot of lightning.

These are particularly dangerous for wildfire applications because the precipitation that would normally help extinguish a fire is not there and the lightning that would trigger the wildfire could spark a fire that cannot be easily extinguished. Dry brush and strong winds not only fan the flames, they stimulate the fires to create their own wildfire-like weather. Rising into the sky, a vigorous updraft lifts particles high into the atmosphere, these particles act as condensation nuclei that attract water molecules to form a storm cloud called a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. The fire clouds produce their own dry lightning. the same phenomenon that sparks the fires in the first place becomes a vicious cycle and appears to be getting worse nine of the state's largest fires Fires have occurred since 2000, leading many to wonder if warming is to blame global, since temperature is one of the necessary ingredients for the formation of storms.

It can be assumed that an increase in temperature will mechanically generate more storms. Climate change causes surface temperatures. by warming and not the rest of the atmosphere, you can have more instability in the atmosphere, which could produce more thunderstorms, which could produce more lightning. The instability in the atmosphere could actually decrease, which would reduce the amount of lightning, thus climate change and lightning would occur. It is a topic that needs to continue to be investigated over a longer period of time, as we have increasingly extensive records of global lightning data, while reducing lightning strikes seems a good way to mitigate its destructive

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Life on Earth would be seriously threatened by a single lightning strike. It produces ozone, a vital gas in our atmosphere that helps protect the planet from harmful ultraviolet sunlight. Without any rays, life would paradoxically cease to exist as long as they are dangerous. Storms are a condition of life on the planet to recharge the Earth's atmospheric field. with electricity we would need electricity if we didn't have thunderstorms if we didn't have lightning what happens is what is known as a leakage current which actually tends to discharge the electrical capacity of the Earth lightning helps transfer negative charges to the Earth to As the Earth releases a positive charge, without this exchange, the electrical balance between the Earth and the atmosphere would disappear in minutes.

According to some scientists, it would only take half an hour to see us die if the storms and lightning on the planet stopped. Lightning is vital and requires be respected Whether on land or on water, laughter. Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and provides economic and food security to approximately 30 million people living near its shores, but the lake is also a deadly zone on the planet. It is Lake Victoria, where around 5,000 deaths occur each year. year on this lake it is the fishermen who continue with their activity and their livelihood and unfortunately they are struck by lightning because it is one of the most affected areas on the planet and when you are on a lake there is no way out the conditions of the lake generate cyclical lightning storms as that the daytime breeze flows from its relatively cool surface onto the warm, moist land the interaction of temperatures invariably forms thunderstorms over water being in water during a storm is especially dangerous water can be a very good conductor of electricity and if you are If lightning strikes a body of water and strikes that body of water, it could very easily transfer the electricity from the water to you.

Although any type of lightning has the potential to be deadly, there is one type whose power is unrivaled, the super lightning bolt. occurs over the ocean tends to be more powerful than lightning strikes that occur over land, some of these lightning strikes are tens to hundreds of times more powerful than lightning strikes that occur over land and these are what are colloquially called super lightning strikes. Super Bowls release between 10 billion and 1 trillion watts of electrical energy, enough to power the average home for an entire month. It is routinely debated why super rays form over the ocean and why they are so strong.

Probably abroad The theory points to salt in the water. Salt is divided into positive and negative ions which help. They conduct electricity when lightning strikes, the more ions are present, the more efficient the electrical charge will be, which is why salt water is a better conductor of electricity than fresh water. That discharge causes a higher peak current and a brighter flash. Fortunately, superbolts make up less than one-thousandth of a percentage of all lightning strikes, however, strike the sea during a storm. Super lightning bolts are no less than ideal when lightning strikes a body of water, these impurities can actually help conduct electricity greater distances than if it were to simply strike the ground or another location. object on land if there are objects people fishing boats or anything near the lightning bolt when it strikes that electricity can be transferred from the lightning bolt to the water and then to the objects that are near the lightning bolt strange most lightning strikes over water occur right in front of the coast compared to deep ocean areas Because of this, moored ships are especially vulnerable, like this sailboat docked in South Boston Harbor, the current hits the mast and travels quickly through the ship, setting a portion of it on fire, not There is no one on board and no injuries are reported nearby. but your fuses are blown and the ship suffers major electrical damage, while the ships cannot be fully protected from lightning, you can add lightning protection to the ships that helps direct electricity away from sensitive objects on the ships, such as the living room. of equipment or passengers on boats.

Like tall buildings and structures, ships can be equipped with lightning rods, however, there are numerous places around the world where drivers are not feasible and thousands of lives are at stake Florida, August 2020. Lightning strikes Millennium Falcon ride at Disney World Resort as a precaution the park closes the attraction big problem, you have huge metal roller coasters, very tall, hundreds of feet high, rising into the sky and thousands of people, tens of thousands of people on that park, now you throw a storm coming in that direction, not now. You just have to have time to close the attractions, you have to be able to get people to some kind of shelter and when they don't necessarily have a frame of reference for where to go to find safety, they're just going to panic and there have been cases where you know When a storm comes, people just ride it out, they just park at a picnic shelter or somewhere that's not necessarily the safest place to be a big part of the things we can do to improve our response. to lightning is to be able to better predict when and where there will be lightning so we can take good precautionary measures, which knowledge is very important, an important direction that lightning research is going, hey honey, shut up, wait for me, hey , the study and monitoring of lightning. and thunderstorms are the means by which meteorologists help mitigate the dangers of this powerful and unpredictable phenomenon, so there are three main categories of instruments that we can use to study lightning, so the ones you would see perhaps in A large amount of current is transferred in a storm, so you are measuring the point where it hits the ground.

We can also use satellites. We have some new satellites that were launched a few years ago that are studying where there are optical lights emitted by lightning. in a thunderstorm, then we have that visual reference of what the lightning looks like at the top of the cloud and then our third and final way is the lightning mapping set and what it does is measure the radio frequencies that the lightning emits. lightning and we can actually map the channels that lightning takes within a cloud so we know where the lighting starts, how far it travels, and how high it is.

The French lightning detection company Meteorage also uses a radio frequency detection network that constantly scans the electromagnetic field variations created by lightning. One of the most interesting applications of these detection systems is to anticipate a real risk of storm at a site in the next half hour or even an hour, it is from this anticipation of the displacement of history that we carry an incalculable number of sites that need to be alerted in order to establish personnel evacuation measures or even to protect certain processes sensitive to storms when you work in the construction industry when you work with the aviation sector when you work with the electrical sector these are large entities that have high expectations in terms of security and in fact this

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us to implement enormous means to guarantee their security as soon as the Sensors detect a radio frequency signature, lightning measurements and locations are transmitted to the company's central operations in a matter of seconds, warnings are sent immediately on a busy day.

It is not uncommon to send more than 30,000 messages. These calls can be voice calls and sent via SMS, so in this example I myself received a text message indicating a storm alert. Implement your preventive measures soon and voila, these warning systems and monitoring devices are helping scientists save lives, but they are not yet 100 foolproof. The best course of action still remains to be aware of the weather and stay home when the thunder roars.