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The Great Thunderstorm of Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Dartmoor, Kingdom of England, took place on Sunday, 21 October 1638, when the church of St Pancras was apparently struck by ball lightning during a severe thunderstorm. An afternoon service was taking place at the time, and the building was packed with approximately 300 worshippers.
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.
Over 70 mobile generators were brought in from around the country to help restore power in what was the largest deployment in London's history. [ 114 ] October 30—New Zealand—At around 8:00 am local time, power was cut to the whole of Northland and most of the northern half of Auckland, affecting 280,000 customers (14.5% of the country).
This gives Lake Maracaibo the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in the world, at 250. [6] The region with the second-most is the village Kifuka, in the mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [7] where the elevation is around 1,700 metres (5,600 ft), receives 232 lightning strikes per square kilometer (600 per ...
A lighting strike triggered the detonators that were being transported by a group of soldiers. [250] 7 December 2024 Netherlands: The Hague: 6 5 An explosion destroyed an apartment block. [251] [252] 9 December 2024 Italy: Calenzano, Tuscany: 4 14 An explosion at an Eni fuel depot caused an office building to collapse. [253] 24 December 2024 Turkey
The phenomenon sees the highest density of lightning in the world, at 250 per km 2. [5] In summers, the phenomenon may even occur as dry lightning without rainfall. [6] The lightning changes its flash frequency throughout the year, and it is different from year to year.
Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning and on average makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. [10] A bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear, but [clarification needed] the turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground. They ...
The Brescia explosion occurred in 1769 in Brescia (now part of Italy) when a large store of gunpowder exploded after a lightning strike, causing extensive destruction and many deaths. Claims that as many as 6,000 people died in the explosion (which may be an exaggeration), places the event high on lists of accidents and disasters by death toll .