I remember my first week out of the police academy. I was on the scene of a teenager struck by lightning. It exited out of both his elbows and knees but he survived. Thirty-five years later, I still hear his screaming, smell the blood, the dirt and feeling helpless. I was 21 years old. 😢
No, a car will not be destroyed by lightening in most cases. It could fry the computer systems of some modern cars but it's not a guarantee. Fun fact: A car or truck is the safest place (besides a home or building) to be in a lightening storm. Just make sure the windows are closed and everyone is completely inside the vehicle.
Yes, most people don't realize this but cars are supremely safe during thunderstorms with excessive lightning. They act as a faraday cage more or less, dispersing the electricity down through the cars to the tires (which is why the tires and antenna are the most damaged parts usually). But AAA etc. will tell you to turn the car off if it's on, and not to touch any metal parts of the car for up to 30 minutes after the hit due to possible residual discharges. Well, unless the lightning hits directly unto the windshield or side windows in which case, yikes I guess.
I saw a lightening strike on our property earlier this year… It was breathtaking, but I was so grateful that I was inside our home, and only saw that strike while looking out a window!!
Once you've been hit by lightning, it increases your chances of being hit again. I've been hit by lightning, TWICE! No lasting effects physically, I got extremely lucky. Needless to say, I don't go out when it storms anymore 😂
Also, not many people know this, but when it comes from cloud to ground, the flash we see is not coming from the cloud to the ground, but instead it's the return back up that is what we truly see. But of course due to speed of light we can't make that distinction just by the human eye. So this, science and instrumentation helps with this.
So Dope! I'm surprised the video didn't bring them up, but I think it'd be Kewl for you to watch & react to fulgurite! Sometimes called fossilized lightning. Imagine those blood vessel patterns, only they're essentially glass, as they are made in the ground at the point where lightning hits the earth. It was crazy seeing the inside of the tree trunk on fire! & volcanic lightning is definitely on another level!
I’m from west Texas and when I was 22 I was driving home one night from a work event and there was so much lightning that I was so scared and wanted to drive faster to get home but it was raining too hard. Also you mentioned Florida having such bad weather and just listed hurricanes and lightning. We have hurricanes, severe lightning storms, tornadoes, flash floods, and earthquakes.
I love a good storm with lightning. I've seen all kinds of wild strikes happen. When I was a little child, we would always go sit out on the front porch (under a roof) to watch "Nature's Light Show". Only if a house very nearby got hit was it time to go in. To this very day, I go outside and watch. I've caught a couple of strikes on camera, too. One out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on a cruise ship (it hit in the water). I caught one strike hit a power line, that caused a transformer to explode.
Some years ago, I was on a plane from Des Moines, Iowa to Phoenix, Arizona, when we encountered a storm. The pilot avoided the storm by flying above the storm. This allowed us to see the most spectacular lightening I have ever seen. The lightening was flashing between the clouds was nonstop! The image it created was amazing…flashes of bright light illuminating the surrounding clouds. The cloud cover was sparse, allowing an uninterrupted view of the lightening. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen! I wish I caught it on camera…
I love thunderstorms. My adoptive mom and I used to sit outside during thunderstorms and watch the lightning. She would say that it reminded her of how amazing God and creation is. She had a massive stroke in September 2020. She also lives six hours from me in an assisted living. But she loves thunderstorms.
Now it also puts in perspective what a lot of fictional characters that can shoot lightning is what they're hitting you with. Like mythical characters like Thor and Zeus or comic book. Character's like the flash or Storm from the x men.
Lightning builds up from water droplets or ice crystals being blown around and past each other. They pick up stray electrical charges, similar to a Wimshurst machine. At the same time an opposite charge builds up on the ground like a capacitor. Once the charge builds up enough, the charges can equalise via lightning.
When I was a teenager in junior high school, years 7-9, a schoolmate was struck by lightning and died. It was tragic and our school was relatively small by comparison. It’s said that the distance of a storm can be measured by seconds counted between the time of the strike and the echo of the thunder. Each second is estimated at 1 mile. I’ve found it to be a fairly accurate.
Been 100 yards from a lightning strike. Tried to be a target while mountain climbing in HS. Dry where we were, but rain clouds all around. We got to the top of the mountain, I was the highest thing around and ... my hair lifted off my head (static electricity of 100,000s of volts)! We ran all the way to the bottom of that mountain ;-(
This was fascinating. And especially cool to me was the feathering pattern left on the skin after a person gets struck. A favorite series of mine, the Harper Connelly mysteries by Charlaine Harris, features a woman who was hit by lightning when she was a teen. It gave her the ability to sense the dead and read how they died. Good series. Only four books, not like her Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood saga. Now I have an idea of what Harper's lighting burn looks like. (Hers didn't go away.)
4:33 The reason why lighting struck that tree is because a storm a couple miles away had a lightning strike go off of the storm & stretched out away from the storm & the lightning struck hits target in an area where the storm wasn't covering. This is pretty rare but they do occasionally happen.
I would think that moisture in the air dictates the path of lightning cuz it would hop from 1 molecule of water to the next so whatever molecule is closer gives the lightning a path or maybe other small meal molecules of other stuff that are somewhat conductive
Lightning scars are sometimes called feather burns as they resemble the plumage on birds. It’s rare that it happens but it does happen. It highly depends on the exact path the electricity takes. Every electrical strike has to have an entrance and exit so find those and figure the path as the damage internally is always reflected in the path. The worst is from top to bottom as the electricity fries every cell in its path basically the person ceases functioning after a few hours. Those are the toughest cases and all you can do is comfort them and try to keep the pain away. Orlando has quite a large number of lightning strike cases and most are close calls but a few are direct hits that are just crazy and dangerous.
My nephew had a friend in high school who died after being struck by lightning. I've always heard that if you can hear the thunder, you can be struck by lightning.
What most people don’t know is lightning can strike up to 100 miles away from a thunderstorm. It happened to a coworker of mine. They went inside due to a storm. Once it was clear blue again and the storm was gone they went back outside. And were struck by lightning. Both her and her son. Her son sadly passed away and she nearly lost her life also. Super scary. Just cause u can’t see or even hear it doesn’t mean it won’t strike.
I live in Alaska and thunderstorms are not very common. That being considered if you hear thunder here you had better get inside as you will receive up to 8 inches of rain in the next hour. We once had a thunderstorm that caused the river to rise 9 feet over the next 2 day.
I've had lightning strike across the street lots of times, but I was in a go-to line at McDonald's and a bolt hit the lot next to my car. It's a sphincter tightener.
In the early stages of development, air acts as an insulator between the positive and negative charges in the cloud and between the cloud and the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning.
lighting is caused by ice crystals in a storm . As the ice crystals bang together they cause static electricity to build up and the lighting is the discharge . Not sure about the thunder , but I think it is the sonic boom of the lighting breaking the sound barrier . When I was around 25 . One Sat morning I was watching tv after a storm had passed . A lightning strike hit a large pine tree next to my house and a branch was touching my tv antenna . The flash and the sound was so loud that for about an half hour I had no hearing and it caused $23000.00 worth of damage !!!
Every one of Disney’s tallest buildings have a lightning rod in them as part of the design. You simply don’t notice them at all due to their positioning and how well it blends into the building itself. They aren’t even counted as part of the building height requirement as they are considered an aftermarket safety feature. Each tower of the castle has a lightning rod already on top with three on the actual castle itself on the roof, the Epcot ball has a single one which is grounded into the ball itself, the tower of terror has 4 on the roof, every mountain in the parks has at least two, the tree of life doesn’t have any but because it’s entirely a concrete structure it won’t conduct electricity anyway, a lot more buildings in Disney also have lightning rods yet you might not see them.
Lightening storms scare me, especially when they strike to close or sound like they're right overhead. Lightening occurs because air acts as an insulator between the positive and negative charges in the cloud and between the cloud and the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning.
My mom got struck by lightning when she was little she was playing with her Barbie dolls under a tree luckily she lived or I and my brother wouldn't be here today I thank God for that
"If caught outside avoid tall objects like trees, also avoid any open field, or being in or near water." So what do you suggest? That covers pretty much everywhere in a lot of places.
Near my home last month we had 7 tornadoes. Gigantic trees in my area down (hundreds) and power lines down with them! My brother is a lineman and just an fyi, never ever go outside after a tree is down until you ask your power provider! 25 foot and more span can and will kill you! Many pets die this way and other animals come to scavenge. So when the linemen come there is usually a trail of animals. It is so dangerous. Our area had 700,000 people without power. My neighborhood looked like a war zone!
@ the 7:17 minute mark. Picture a car battery. Positive on one end and negative on the other end. Connect the two ends and there is a spark, The ground is always negative and lighting is always positive. Nature likes a 50/50 balance, So the negative (lacking) sucks the positive (over abundance) in order to achieve this 50/50 balance. PS Car batteries become dead when both sides achieve 50/50 evenness.
What people don’t realize is that lightning can strike from over 100 miles away from a thunderstorm. I didn’t realize it until it happened to a coworker. They were at their cabin and a storm came in so they all went inside. After it cleared up they all went outside again. And were HIT by LIGHTNING. Straight out of a clear blue sky. Both her and her son were hit. Her son passed away and she very nearly died also. Super scary. Just because u can’t see it or even hear lightning doesn’t mean it won’t strike.
The tree that got struck at 5:04 had the majority of turning it into firewood done with that lightning strike. All that has to be done is chop it into smaller pieces.
7:21 Sorry for the unnecessary amount of comments but to answer your question. Lighting happens when ice crystals collide with each other & rub against each other & thus creating static electricity forming lighting.
My miata got hit while I was driving and it temporarily blinded me and the car stalled out but when I regained vision I was able to just put in the clutch and restart it. Only damage was a burn mark on the trunk lid
The lightening rod was invented by American founding father Benjamin Franklin. Yes, I lived in Florida for four years. It does have a lot of lightening.
Yes, here in the states. Yes, even though we call Florida the sunshine state. We also call it hurricane country. Cause any time a tropical hurricane or storm comes to the states. Florida is always mostly the first state that gets hit. And I always feel bad about that. I have family down the Florida and it's sucks. On another note, Kabir I've been meaning to. I've had friends who live in Florida. Ask me, Chris, would you ever move to Florida? So you know, I wouldn't. And they asked me why and I say hurricane country.
Not as scary as a tornado though. Hurricanes give you ample warning, so no problem on that aspect. Tornados, you only have a few moments to react esp. when u hear the warning sirens going off. Never been in a tornado, u know Tornado Alley I would avoid that. Yes, I am a native Floridan with plenty of Hurricanes under my belt. You prepare and either buckle down and ride it out or you leave.
Every part of lightning is fascinating and endlessly riveting to me, even after a very close call. However, trying to wrap your head around the concept of something you can actually see that is moving at 270,000 miles per hour... WTF.
I actually have personally experienced a close lightning strike, way back during my childhood even, around age 10 or so. I can still remember it vividly. I was sitting outside at home watching as the storm approached. Then when I started feeling raindrops, I ran towards the front door but it was locked. Then I seen lightning get more intense as well as the rain, I had to run to the side door and I fumbled with grabbing the handle and lightning actually struck nearly missing my foot by inches! I was so freaked out and shaking! Coincidentally, that's when my passion for weather started!
I think it’d be cool to one day see a mega bolt caught on camera. It’s like an extremely rare type of lightning leagues more powerful then a normal lightning bolt.
Lighting hitting a car will likely fry the battery (or at least some electronics in the car, from a quick search the battery might not be the fastest way to the ground and so wouldn't be the path the lightning takes). Not sure if it would necessarily damage the engine. Maybe parts of it. Cars are also grounded I'm pretty sure so the person inside should be safe. Similarly, if you're in a car near a downed power line, it's safer to stay in the car than try to get out of it.
this video basically is why i believe mother nature's most lethal weapon to not be tornadoes, not hurricanes, earthquakes, nor tsunamis, its lightning, you can't predict it at all
If lightning hits your car, everything will be fine for the electrical system is grounded and the car self is grounded through the rubber of the tires on the road. Of course, you could always have a heart attack witnessing the experience.
I love these videos they are hilarious. And no lightning does not effect cars or trucks cause they are insulated by the tires. You need to educate yourself on a lot of topics that you covered your old enough to know all this. Plus you have a computer GOOGLE it.
I remember my first week out of the police academy. I was on the scene of a teenager struck by lightning. It exited out of both his elbows and knees but he survived. Thirty-five years later, I still hear his screaming, smell the blood, the dirt and feeling helpless. I was 21 years old. 😢
No, a car will not be destroyed by lightening in most cases. It could fry the computer systems of some modern cars but it's not a guarantee. Fun fact: A car or truck is the safest place (besides a home or building) to be in a lightening storm. Just make sure the windows are closed and everyone is completely inside the vehicle.
Yes, most people don't realize this but cars are supremely safe during thunderstorms with excessive lightning. They act as a faraday cage more or less, dispersing the electricity down through the cars to the tires (which is why the tires and antenna are the most damaged parts usually). But AAA etc. will tell you to turn the car off if it's on, and not to touch any metal parts of the car for up to 30 minutes after the hit due to possible residual discharges. Well, unless the lightning hits directly unto the windshield or side windows in which case, yikes I guess.
Yes, make sure you aren't touching the body, especially the doors
I've been in a car struck by lightning. The car and we were fine. It just scared the holy sh*t out of me!
I saw a lightening strike on our property earlier this year… It was breathtaking, but I was so grateful that I was inside our home, and only saw that strike while looking out a window!!
Once you've been hit by lightning, it increases your chances of being hit again. I've been hit by lightning, TWICE! No lasting effects physically, I got extremely lucky. Needless to say, I don't go out when it storms anymore 😂
Oh wow. Have you read about that guy who got struck repeatedly? I think he was a park ranger.
@@ashleydowney1222 I remember that vaguely. I just remember thinking he should never go outside, ever.
The Tree That Got Hit On A Sunny Day Exemplifies Where The Phrase "Like A Bolt From The Blue!!" Originated!!!
Yep! Most don’t realize that lightning can actually strike up to 100 miles away from a thunderstorm
Also, not many people know this, but when it comes from cloud to ground, the flash we see is not coming from the cloud to the ground, but instead it's the return back up that is what we truly see. But of course due to speed of light we can't make that distinction just by the human eye. So this, science and instrumentation helps with this.
So Dope!
I'm surprised the video didn't bring them up, but I think it'd be Kewl for you to watch & react to fulgurite! Sometimes called fossilized lightning. Imagine those blood vessel patterns, only they're essentially glass, as they are made in the ground at the point where lightning hits the earth.
It was crazy seeing the inside of the tree trunk on fire! & volcanic lightning is definitely on another level!
I’m from west Texas and when I was 22 I was driving home one night from a work event and there was so much lightning that I was so scared and wanted to drive faster to get home but it was raining too hard. Also you mentioned Florida having such bad weather and just listed hurricanes and lightning. We have hurricanes, severe lightning storms, tornadoes, flash floods, and earthquakes.
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This was extremely interesting. Thanks.
I love a good storm with lightning. I've seen all kinds of wild strikes happen. When I was a little child, we would always go sit out on the front porch (under a roof) to watch "Nature's Light Show". Only if a house very nearby got hit was it time to go in. To this very day, I go outside and watch. I've caught a couple of strikes on camera, too. One out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on a cruise ship (it hit in the water). I caught one strike hit a power line, that caused a transformer to explode.
Some years ago, I was on a plane from Des Moines, Iowa to Phoenix, Arizona, when we encountered a storm. The pilot avoided the storm by flying above the storm. This allowed us to see the most spectacular lightening I have ever seen. The lightening was flashing between the clouds was nonstop! The image it created was amazing…flashes of bright light illuminating the surrounding clouds. The cloud cover was sparse, allowing an uninterrupted view of the lightening. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen! I wish I caught it on camera…
I love thunderstorms. My adoptive mom and I used to sit outside during thunderstorms and watch the lightning. She would say that it reminded her of how amazing God and creation is. She had a massive stroke in September 2020. She also lives six hours from me in an assisted living. But she loves thunderstorms.
Now it also puts in perspective what a lot of fictional characters that can shoot lightning is what they're hitting you with. Like mythical characters like Thor and Zeus or comic book. Character's like the flash or Storm from the x men.
I remember hearing a man losing his sight after being hit. Years later he was hit again and got his sight back.
Lightning builds up from water droplets or ice crystals being blown around and past each other. They pick up stray electrical charges, similar to a Wimshurst machine. At the same time an opposite charge builds up on the ground like a capacitor. Once the charge builds up enough, the charges can equalise via lightning.
Thanks for the info. I didn’t know that
When I was a teenager in junior high school, years 7-9, a schoolmate was struck by lightning and died. It was tragic and our school was relatively small by comparison.
It’s said that the distance of a storm can be measured by seconds counted between the time of the strike and the echo of the thunder. Each second is estimated at 1 mile. I’ve found it to be a fairly accurate.
Been 100 yards from a lightning strike. Tried to be a target while mountain climbing in HS. Dry where we were, but rain clouds all around. We got to the top of the mountain, I was the highest thing around and ... my hair lifted off my head (static electricity of 100,000s of volts)! We ran all the way to the bottom of that mountain ;-(
We have incredible electrical storms during the summer monsoon season in Arizona.
This was fascinating. And especially cool to me was the feathering pattern left on the skin after a person gets struck. A favorite series of mine, the Harper Connelly mysteries by Charlaine Harris, features a woman who was hit by lightning when she was a teen. It gave her the ability to sense the dead and read how they died. Good series. Only four books, not like her Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood saga. Now I have an idea of what Harper's lighting burn looks like. (Hers didn't go away.)
I've been caught in the shower during a lightening storm which is dangerous and pretty nerve wracking.
I’m scared of doing that during a storm
4:33 The reason why lighting struck that tree is because a storm a couple miles away had a lightning strike go off of the storm & stretched out away from the storm & the lightning struck hits target in an area where the storm wasn't covering. This is pretty rare but they do occasionally happen.
That's why Tampa, Florida's NHL team is the 'Tampa Bay Lightning' :D
I would think that moisture in the air dictates the path of lightning cuz it would hop from 1 molecule of water to the next so whatever molecule is closer gives the lightning a path or maybe other small meal molecules of other stuff that are somewhat conductive
Lightning scars are sometimes called feather burns as they resemble the plumage on birds. It’s rare that it happens but it does happen. It highly depends on the exact path the electricity takes. Every electrical strike has to have an entrance and exit so find those and figure the path as the damage internally is always reflected in the path. The worst is from top to bottom as the electricity fries every cell in its path basically the person ceases functioning after a few hours. Those are the toughest cases and all you can do is comfort them and try to keep the pain away. Orlando has quite a large number of lightning strike cases and most are close calls but a few are direct hits that are just crazy and dangerous.
My nephew had a friend in high school who died after being struck by lightning. I've always heard that if you can hear the thunder, you can be struck by lightning.
What most people don’t know is lightning can strike up to 100 miles away from a thunderstorm. It happened to a coworker of mine. They went inside due to a storm. Once it was clear blue again and the storm was gone they went back outside. And were struck by lightning. Both her and her son. Her son sadly passed away and she nearly lost her life also. Super scary. Just cause u can’t see or even hear it doesn’t mean it won’t strike.
I live in Alaska and thunderstorms are not very common. That being considered if you hear thunder here you had better get inside as you will receive up to 8 inches of rain in the next hour. We once had a thunderstorm that caused the river to rise 9 feet over the next 2 day.
I've had lightning strike across the street lots of times, but I was in a go-to line at McDonald's and a bolt hit the lot next to my car. It's a sphincter tightener.
In the early stages of development, air acts as an insulator between the positive and negative charges in the cloud and between the cloud and the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning.
lighting is caused by ice crystals in a storm . As the ice crystals bang together they cause static electricity to build up and the lighting is the discharge . Not sure about the thunder , but I think it is the sonic boom of the lighting breaking the sound barrier . When I was around 25 . One Sat morning I was watching tv after a storm had passed . A lightning strike hit a large pine tree next to my house and a branch was touching my tv antenna . The flash and the sound was so loud that for about an half hour I had no hearing and it caused $23000.00 worth of damage !!!
Every one of Disney’s tallest buildings have a lightning rod in them as part of the design. You simply don’t notice them at all due to their positioning and how well it blends into the building itself. They aren’t even counted as part of the building height requirement as they are considered an aftermarket safety feature. Each tower of the castle has a lightning rod already on top with three on the actual castle itself on the roof, the Epcot ball has a single one which is grounded into the ball itself, the tower of terror has 4 on the roof, every mountain in the parks has at least two, the tree of life doesn’t have any but because it’s entirely a concrete structure it won’t conduct electricity anyway, a lot more buildings in Disney also have lightning rods yet you might not see them.
My cable box got hit once. Loudest sound Ive ever heard in my life.
Lightening storms scare me, especially when they strike to close or sound like they're right overhead.
Lightening occurs because air acts as an insulator between the positive and negative charges in the cloud and between the cloud and the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning.
2:24 what a pause moment
My mom got struck by lightning when she was little she was playing with her Barbie dolls under a tree luckily she lived or I and my brother wouldn't be here today I thank God for that
"If caught outside avoid tall objects like trees, also avoid any open field, or being in or near water."
So what do you suggest? That covers pretty much everywhere in a lot of places.
Near my home last month we had 7 tornadoes. Gigantic trees in my area down (hundreds) and power lines down with them! My brother is a lineman and just an fyi, never ever go outside after a tree is down until you ask your power provider! 25 foot and more span can and will kill you! Many pets die this way and other animals come to scavenge. So when the linemen come there is usually a trail of animals. It is so dangerous. Our area had 700,000 people without power. My neighborhood looked like a war zone!
7:00 Supercells are also the same storm responsible for the formation of tornadoes.
@ the 7:17 minute mark. Picture a car battery. Positive on one end and negative on the other end. Connect the two ends and there is a spark, The ground is always negative and lighting is always positive. Nature likes a 50/50 balance, So the negative (lacking) sucks the positive (over abundance) in order to achieve this 50/50 balance. PS Car batteries become dead when both sides achieve 50/50 evenness.
What people don’t realize is that lightning can strike from over 100 miles away from a thunderstorm. I didn’t realize it until it happened to a coworker. They were at their cabin and a storm came in so they all went inside. After it cleared up they all went outside again. And were HIT by LIGHTNING. Straight out of a clear blue sky. Both her and her son were hit. Her son passed away and she very nearly died also. Super scary. Just because u can’t see it or even hear lightning doesn’t mean it won’t strike.
The tree that got struck at 5:04 had the majority of turning it into firewood done with that lightning strike. All that has to be done is chop it into smaller pieces.
Here in Florida, we get thunderstorms every afternoon during the summer with torrential rain and thunder and lightning
7:21 Sorry for the unnecessary amount of comments but to answer your question. Lighting happens when ice crystals collide with each other & rub against each other & thus creating static electricity forming lighting.
My miata got hit while I was driving and it temporarily blinded me and the car stalled out but when I regained vision I was able to just put in the clutch and restart it. Only damage was a burn mark on the trunk lid
I see lightning all the time in Nebraska
I love thunderstorms ⛈️
The lightening rod was invented by American founding father Benjamin Franklin. Yes, I lived in Florida for four years. It does have a lot of lightening.
In my forty plus years I've only been close to one strike. It was so loud it felt like someone had slapped me on my chest.
Yes, here in the states. Yes, even though we call Florida the sunshine state. We also call it hurricane country. Cause any time a tropical hurricane or storm comes to the states. Florida is always mostly the first state that gets hit. And I always feel bad about that. I have family down the Florida and it's sucks.
On another note, Kabir I've been meaning to. I've had friends who live in Florida. Ask me, Chris, would you ever move to Florida? So you know, I wouldn't. And they asked me why and I say hurricane country.
Not as scary as a tornado though. Hurricanes give you ample warning, so no problem on that aspect. Tornados, you only have a few moments to react esp. when u hear the warning sirens going off. Never been in a tornado, u know Tornado Alley I would avoid that. Yes, I am a native Floridan with plenty of Hurricanes under my belt. You prepare and either buckle down and ride it out or you leave.
Here is a channel suggestion for you. Pecos Hank. He has a great video of how lightning works.
Lightning terrifies me I've seen it strike ground a few times
A tree usually does not survive after being struck. It will show signs of dying.
So, don’t stand by a tree, or in a field (without a tree), or by the water. Just stay under a rock! 😂😂😂
When lightning hits a tree, you could say the bark is worse then the bite. >.>
It won't do major damage to a car. The rubber tires keep it from being grounded unless it's a massive downpour for the electricity to follow the water
Lighting is ice particles getting charged up and then it discharges.
Every part of lightning is fascinating and endlessly riveting to me, even after a very close call. However, trying to wrap your head around the concept of something you can actually see that is moving at 270,000 miles per hour...
WTF.
I had a tree in my backyard that was hit by lightning, it split in half
Static electricity builds up between the ground and air or clouds until it ignites connecting a path.
No tree survives a lightning strike that I've ever seen.
I actually have personally experienced a close lightning strike, way back during my childhood even, around age 10 or so. I can still remember it vividly. I was sitting outside at home watching as the storm approached. Then when I started feeling raindrops, I ran towards the front door but it was locked. Then I seen lightning get more intense as well as the rain, I had to run to the side door and I fumbled with grabbing the handle and lightning actually struck nearly missing my foot by inches! I was so freaked out and shaking! Coincidentally, that's when my passion for weather started!
I think it’d be cool to one day see a mega bolt caught on camera. It’s like an extremely rare type of lightning leagues more powerful then a normal lightning bolt.
Here in Colorado, I can look forward to at least one lightning storm a week during the summer. Is it not that common in the UK?
Lighting hitting a car will likely fry the battery (or at least some electronics in the car, from a quick search the battery might not be the fastest way to the ground and so wouldn't be the path the lightning takes). Not sure if it would necessarily damage the engine. Maybe parts of it. Cars are also grounded I'm pretty sure so the person inside should be safe. Similarly, if you're in a car near a downed power line, it's safer to stay in the car than try to get out of it.
You might like the Tommy Lee Jones movie "Volcano."
this video basically is why i believe mother nature's most lethal weapon to not be tornadoes, not hurricanes, earthquakes, nor tsunamis, its lightning, you can't predict it at all
Last night I’ve seen at least a thousand lol but then I live in Florida and a t storm passed thru
Do not mess with mother nature, she'll kick your ass every time.
If lightning hits your car, everything will be fine for the electrical system is grounded and the car self is grounded through the rubber of the tires on the road. Of course, you could always have a heart attack witnessing the experience.
250 strikes per minute
Friend, come to Texas. Plenty of lightnin' to spare.
Imagine the lightning on Jupiter... Elon needs to get on it.
Thunder is the noise not lightning
How can one can nor believe in God , when you see the awesome power of nature. Just look around , you see His creation everywhere!
I love these videos they are hilarious. And no lightning does not effect cars or trucks cause they are insulated by the tires. You need to educate yourself on a lot of topics that you covered your old enough to know all this. Plus you have a computer GOOGLE it.
Affect, not effect. "You"re old enough". If you want to condescend, do so competently.
Sheesh! lighten up! nobody’s perfect, sept maybe you. 😊
Thanks sugartits.@@rockyroad7345
Stupid lazy idiots piss me off.@@clinthowe7629