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LIGHTNING: SKY FIRE
Prior to the 1700s, the idea that lightning and electricity were one and the same was considered to belong to the realm of foolishness. In 1708, an Englishman named D. William Wall submitted a treatise to Dr. John Mitchel of the Royal Society in England. His study, entitled The Sameness of Lightning and Electricity, was read by the members of the Society “amidst laughter from professed experts on electricity.”
In short, the fact that lightning and electricity are one and the same has been known by the scientific community at large for less than 300 years!
LIGHTNING STRIKE STATS
There are roughly 2000 thunderstorms in progress in the world at any given time and
as many as 30 to 100 lightning strikes from cloud to ground every single second of
every single day. In the continental United States alone, there are approximately
40 million cloud-
Lightning causes more direct deaths than any other weather phenomena. In the U.S.
alone, lightning-
Men are struck by lightning 84 percent more often than women.
The majority of lightning strikes occur in July, mostly on Saturdays, Sundays, and Wednesdays.
The five states with the most lightning related deaths are: (in order) Florida, Michigan, Texas, New York and Tennessee.
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Scientists cannot explain this part of the ‘Real World’.
LIGHTNING
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Science, lightning is defined as “a high-
According to the standard Webster’s Dictionary of Science, lightning is defined as
a “high-
