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Intense lightning bolts and flashes illuminated the Chicago skyline on July 5.This video, recorded by Craig Shimala, shows lightning streak through the night sky in Illinois during a powerful ...
Heavy rain, lightning and gusty winds lashed Chicago as storms swept eastern Illinois on August 25.This footage by Martin Engels shows lightning spidering across the Windy City’s skyline.The ...
Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1] Side splash makes up about a third of cases and occurs when lightning strikes nearby and jumps through the air to the person. [1]
2017: The first live recording of a lightning strike on a cardiac rhythm strip occurred in a teenaged male who had an implanted loop recorder as a cardiac monitor for neurocardiogenic syncope. [61] 2018: A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda. [62]
Blitzortung (German for "lightning direction-finding", German pronunciation: [ˈblɪtsˌɔʁtʊŋ]) is an informal, non-commercial group of citizen scientists supported by professional scientists. Active since 2005, [ 1 ] station operators manage a worldwide network of ~1800 active VLF radio wave receiver stations in 83 countries. [ 2 ]
Thunderstorms swept over Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of May 13, bringing intense wind, rain, and an impressive amount of lightning, captured in a timelapse video by a local resident.Craig ...
A 13-year-old girl was critically injured when she was struck by lightning in Chicago Wednesday afternoon as thunderstorms rolled through the region. The city's fire department was called to ...
Global map of lightning frequency--strikes/km 2 /yr. The high lightning areas are on land located in the tropics. Areas with almost no lightning are the Arctic and Antarctic, closely followed by the oceans which have only 0.1 to 1 strikes/km 2 /yr. The map on the right shows that lightning is not distributed evenly around the planet. [5]