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The intense heat generated by a lightning strike can burn tissue, and cause lung damage, and the chest can be damaged by the mechanical force of rapidly expanding heated air. [ 4 ] Just as heat can cause expanding air in the lungs, the explosive shock wave created by lightning (the cause of thunder) can cause concussive and hearing damage at ...
Trees are frequent conductors of lightning to the ground. [27] Since sap is a relatively poor conductor, its electrical resistance causes it to be heated explosively into steam, which blows off the bark outside the lightning's path. In following seasons, trees overgrow the damaged area and may cover it completely, leaving only a vertical scar.
[3] [17] This happens especially with trees whose trunks are already dying or rotting. [3] [18] [19] The more usual result of lightning striking a tree, however, is a lightning scar, running down the bark, or simply root damage, whose only visible sign above ground is branches that were fed by the root dying back. [17] [20]
SEATTLE -- A lightning bolt struck a giant tree in Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum Tuesday afternoon and the entire thing exploded. The bark of the tree was literally blow in all directions.
A lightning protection system is important when an older tree has had cabling or rodding placed on it for structural support. Lightning protection system for trees can reduces risks Skip to main ...
Electrical Safety First said the unseen damage that follows a lightning strike can be extensive.
Abiotic factors that can damage plants include heat, freezing, flooding, lightning, ozone gas, and pollutant chemicals. Plants respond to injury by signalling that damage has occurred, by secreting materials to seal off the damaged area, by producing antimicrobial chemicals, and in woody plants by regrowing over wounds.
Two people were taken to the hospital Saturday after lightning struck a tree near a home along a golf course that is hosting the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship. The home is just north of the ...