Lightning storm in Florida captured by a high-speed camera at the Florida Institute of Technology.
Here are a few "Lightning Myths and Facts":
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/myths.shtml
My favorite:
Myth: A lightning victim is electrified. If you touch them, you’ll be electrocuted.
Fact: The human body does not store electricity. It is perfectly safe to touch a lightning victim to give them first aid.
This is the most chilling of lightning myths. Imagine if someone died because people were afraid to give CPR! ;)
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Very cool
ReplyDeleteMy parents worked for NIPSCO when I was growing up. I heard many a horror story about electricity running through human bodies...melting footprints into catwalks...
ReplyDeleteIn the NOAA article the trivia line: Cape Canaveral Air Force DStation/Kennedy Space Center has documented anvil lightning travelling 76 NM might confuse you. So in case you plan to read it I will help.
ReplyDeleteThis line is the only mention of anvil lightning. Anvil lightning is just lightning striking out of a blue sky (the strike arcs far from a storm).
Travelling looks weird and is just the more common spelling in England. It isn't very common in the US, the traveling version is more common.
76 NM is 76 nautical miles. That's about 87 1/2 miles. Imagine being 90 miles from a lightning storm in a beautiful cloudless day and BAM lightning strikes from nowhere! Wowzas!