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Freak lightning deaths in unusually quite summer

Freak lightning deaths in unusually quite summer . # 10 of 2001. What causes a lightning .

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Freak lightning deaths in unusually quite summer

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  1. Freak lightning deaths in unusually quite summer # 10 of 2001

  2. What causes a lightning ** Lightning is an electric current. Within a thundercloud, many small bits of ice (frozen raindrops) bump into each other as they move around in the air. All of those collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. ** The positive charges (protons) form at the top of the cloud and the negative charges (electrons) form at the bottom of the cloud. **Since opposites attract, that causes a positive charge to build up on the ground beneath the cloud. The grounds electrical charge concentrates around anything that sticks up, such as mountains, people, or single trees. The charge coming up from these points eventually connects with a charge reaching down from the clouds and lightning strikes!

  3. What were the damages • Over this summer there were four deaths due to lightning. • On June 16, lightning struck and killed a teenage girl south of Wakefield, Quebec. (The lightning bolt struck her after the rain had ended and the sun was shining - literally a bolt out of the blue. -- - positive lighting)  • The same thunderstorm shocked and burned 11 soccer players and bystanders, none were seriously hurt. This insadent was in a Montreal park.

  4. Damages continued ** On July 22, lightning took the lives of two men who had taken shelter from a thunderstorm under a tree west of Toronto. A single lightning bolt had hit the tree directly and jumped across to the friends killing them instantly. **On August 7, near Burks Falls, Ontario, lightning instantly killed an elderly man standing indoors while he was watching the passing thunderstorm.

  5. Affects Lighting storms can knock out power, destroy trees and has the power to tack lives as in this case over the summer of 2001 when there was four people died along with some burned from lighting.

  6. Info on lighting storms ** Waiting at least 30 minutes after seeing the last lightning flash or hearing the final peal of thunder before venturing outside **avoiding standing next to someone while waiting for a thunderstorm to pass - at least five metres distance should be kept ** remembering that there are no safe havens from lightning, not even indoors.

  7. Positive lighting The overall effect is a discharge of positive charges to the ground. Positive lightning bolts are typically six to ten times more powerful than negative bolts, last around ten times longer, and can also strike tens of kilometres from the clouds. Positive lightning (bolt from the blue) -- -- makes up less than 5% of all lightning. It occurs when the leader forms at the positively charged cloud tops, with the consequence that a negatively charged streamer issues from the ground. The overall effect is a discharge of positive charges to the ground.

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