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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 ...
The first NASCAR Xfinity Series race on the street course in downtown Chicago has been suspended until Sunday because of lightning. Cole Custer led each of the first 25 laps Saturday before the ...
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 ...
1901: 11 killed and one was paralyzed below the hips by a strike in Chicago. [48] 1902: A lightning strike damaged the upper section of the Eiffel Tower, requiring the reconstruction of its top. [49] 1916 June 9: At least one man named only as "Johnson" is killed following a lightning strike at his home near San Antonio, Texas. [50]
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]
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]
There's a mesmerizing new project from an organization called Blitzortung.org that lets you see real-time lightning strikes around the world. It works using a network of volunteers willing to ...
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 ]