Am I the only person who thinks it is incredibly foolish to think "Thunder storms are forecast, lets climb a mountain" ?
Young Australian goalkeeper Stefan Petrovski dies following lightning strike
Eighteen-year-old was struck in freak training incident last month
Player moved to Malaysia this season to further his career
Guardian sport
Sunday 1 May 2016 13.34 BST
A young Australian football player struck by lightning last month while playing in Malaysia, Stefan Petrovski, has died in hospital.
The 18-year-old goalkeeper lost consciousness after being hit as he left a training session for his club, Melaka United, on 5 April.
He was rushed to the emergency department of a Malacca hospital before being transferred to the intensive care unit, where he was initially in a stable condition and breathing with the support of a ventilator.
Fairfax Media reported Petrovski had shown signs of recovery but his condition deteriorated recently.
He was reportedly suffering from a lack of oxygen supply to and swelling on the brain.
“I was shocked when I was told of the news by the assistant to the association’s team manager Datuk Yusof Mahadi,” Khairi Anuar Ahmad, the club’s vice president, was quoted as saying in the New Straits Times.
“He was a dedicated goalkeeper and boasted that he wanted to be the best goalkeeper in the country. He was very jovial, a good boy, liked by his team-mates and always wanted to be better.”
A second player, Muhd Afiq Azuan, was hit in the freak incident but the 21-year-old regained consciousness and was able to be stabilised.
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http://www.theguardian.com/football...fan-petrovski-dies-following-lightning-strike
Lightning strikes kill 50 in Bangladesh
More than 50 people across Bangladesh have died after being struck by lightning in the past two days, police say.
Many of the dead were farmers who were killed as they worked in their paddy fields.
Bangladesh is prone to electrical storms but this year they have been particularly severe ...
About 90 people have been killed by lightning since March, compared to a total of 51 people in the whole of 2015, Voice of America (VoA) reported.
The head of Bangladesh's disaster management body Mohammad Riaz Ahmed told VoA he was "indeed concerned" by the rise in the number of deaths.
God hates German rock music.Police say "many" people have been injured by lightning at a rock concert in Germany -- the second straight year lightning has injured fans at the Rock am Ring festival.
Spiegel magazine, citing police, reported on its website that lightning struck the festival grounds in Mendig in the west German state of Rheinland-Pfalz during a thunderstorm Friday (June 3) and a number of people were injured. It was unclear exactly how many were hurt or how badly.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...7393551/rock-am-ring-festival-lightning-again
God hates German rock music.
Lightning strike kills more than 300 reindeer in Norway
STOCKHOLM (AP) — More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway in what wildlife officials are calling an unusually large natural disaster.
The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie images showing a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, in the lightning storm Friday.
Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told the AP it's not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by lightning strikes, "but we have not heard about such numbers before."
He said reindeer tend to stay very close to each other in bad weather, which could explain how so many were killed at once. ...
... Has anyone else heard of this particular bit of nonsense? Or is it just our family's congenital insanity?
The wisdom of our recent ancestors! The image of a lightning bolt bouncing through a house, ricocheting off mirrors, terrified residents ducking for cover, is a fun one.It appears two explanations are given: (a) the mirrors somehow 'attract' lightning and / or (b) the mirrors' reflective capabilities would allow lightning to ricochet.
Abstract. A World Meteorological Organization weather and climate extremes committee has judged that the world’s longest reported distance for a single lightning flash occurred with a horizontal distance of 321 km (199.5 mi) over Oklahoma in 2007, while the world’s longest reported duration for a single lightning flash is an event that lasted continuously for 7.74 seconds over southern France in 2012. In addition, the committee has unanimously recommended amendment of the AMS Glossary of Meteorology definition of lightning discharge as a "series of electrical processes taking place within 1 second" by removing the phrase “within one second” and replacing with “continuously.” Validation of these new world extremes (a) demonstrates the recent and on-going dramatic augmentations and improvements to regional lightning detection and measurement networks, (b) provides reinforcement regarding the dangers of lightning, and (c) provides new information for lightning engineering concerns.
a collosal untapped energy resource
I once knew (slightly) a lady who, with her husbans and two teenage children had been struck by lightning, as a group. Her husband was killed and she & her children ended up in hospital for a couple of days for minor burns treatment & observation.
I want one.