Baron understood well the relationships between lightning strikes and weather patterns, including temperature, precipitation and wind.
Now consider the number of lightning strikes that occur in the Midwest in an average summer.
West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service dealt with two reported lightning strikes in Horsham and Crawley.
ScottishPower said its supplies were hit by 14 lightning strikes between 2000 and 2100 BST on Wednesday.
Any thunderstorms that pop up could present more bad news than good, since lightning strikes could spark more flames.
When lightning strikes a plane, the bolt typically hits a sharp part of it, such as a wing tip.
It is designed to detect the low-frequency radio pulses emitted by lightning strikes.
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Anyone's longitudinal luck can suddenly go south: Batteries burn up, propellers get tangled in lobster traps, lightning strikes sailboat masts.
Based on what he did at BlueArc, I would not be surprised if lightning strikes twice in the same place.
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More than 170 fires are burning in New South Wales, as lightning strikes cause more blazes amid hot and windy weather.
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They could also provide an atmospheric electrical potential difference, which otherwise might not exist, to achieve precisely aimed and timed lightning strikes.
Most experts estimate that lightning strikes over Catatumbo roughly 140 to 160 nights a year, with flashes often visible seven to 10 hours per night.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration keeps a 30-year running average, which predicts 54 people should die by lightning strikes this year.
To make sure the bank's managers got the message, the unions staged lightning strikes just before Christmas, disrupting the distribution of banknotes in Marseilles and other areas of the country.
Displaying the charred remains of two recently zapped plane panels, Hadad explains that a thin layer of copper mesh on an aircraft's exterior can drastically reduce the damage caused when lightning strikes.
After various tests on the virtual prototype (such as making sure vital systems are insulated from lightning strikes), its ceiling, rate of climb and other handling characteristics are fed into a flight simulator.
Although we should all have plenty of empathy and horror for the people in Russia, it makes little sense to worry that this will ever happen to us, any more than we worry about lightning strikes.
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Until the 20th Century, the nutrient element only came to Earth in a reactive form that is usable by plants and animals, thanks to certain microbes in soil and water (and to a smaller extent in lightning strikes).
Listen to turn-by-turn directions from the inside of your motorcycle helmet, check your trail map from the handlebars of your mountain bike, plot your chart and find fish on your next boating trip, or steer clear of lightning strikes when flying your jet.
Although lightning frequently strikes the tundra, the landscape is typically fairly moist and so rarely ignites, and even when it does, the flames don't spread very far, burn very deeply or remain alight for very long.
Creativity is often portrayed as a lightning bolt that strikes without warning, leaving a sudden burst of ideas in its wake.
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