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Sarah Greig might have a magnetic personality, or maybe she's very grounding, after her second close call with lightning in ...
An Edmonton woman is recovering in hospital after being struck by lightning in west Edmonton Thursday as severe thunderstorms ...
The term “lucky to be alive” may be an overused phrase, but in this case, it’s appropriate after an Edmonton woman survived ...
While being outdoors poses the greatest risk, being indoors also does too. There are five ways lightning can strike you: a direct strike, a side flash, the ground current, conduction, and streamers.
Thunderstorms dropped tens of thousands of lightning strikes across Northern California the past five days. Officials warned ...
One of the Dipteryx trees in our study was struck twice in just five years," reads a statement by the authors. This lightning tolerance allows boosts the tree's ability to produce offspring by about ...
Lightning struck and set a world record. The flash occurred in 2017 and spanned from eastern Texas to near west-central ...
A west Edmonton resident struck by lightning during a Thursday afternoon storm was saved by quick intervention from Emergency ...
Scientists have just confirmed an October 2017 ‘megaflash’ set a new world record for the longest lightning streak ever recorded. It streaked across eastern Texas and the Great Plains, touching down ...
Two people have been killed by lightning strikes in New Jersey within the span of eight days. It's happened before.
According to the study's authors, each lightning strike to a Dipteryx oleifera tree killed approximately 9.2 neighbouring trees due to the electricity traveling between branches or vines.