2006-09-12 00:47:19 · 13 answers · asked by jack w 1 in Environment
yes as lightning is electricity. electricity travels through the path of least resistance. if the path of least resistance is strong enough it will continuously transfer through that point. and therefor strike there over and over again
2006-09-12 00:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by Brandon D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes lightning does strike the earth in the same place more than once, but does not travel the same path through the atmosphere. National Geographic did a story about lightning years ago, NG took a high speed photograph of lightning an found that lightning strikes are made up of not one strike but many strikes, this happens so fast that the eye sees the flashes as one flash. Each strike did not follow the exact same path but they were very close to each other.
2006-09-12 01:33:15 · answer #2 · answered by treb67 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightning is the "static" discharge of electricity that builds up between the clouds and earth. The charge actually goes up from the ground to the clouds, even though the lightning appears to travel from the clouds down. (there is a complicated reason). This is why your skin will "tingle" and your hair will stand just before lightning strikes you. During a good rain storm, the rain drops will carry the static charge to the ground and no lightning
will take place. There are occasions when the charge is excessive even with rain and lightning strikes. From flash to bang, count the number of seconds and divide by 5.
So if 5 seconds go by between lightning and thunder, it is one mile away.
Lightning rods work in the way that they continuously allow the
static to trickle to ground and no charge builds up.
2006-09-12 01:07:02 · answer #3 · answered by orion_1812@yahoo.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-09-12 00:51:56 · answer #4 · answered by alis_n_1derland 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-09-12 00:48:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and sometimes, more than twice. Shenandoah Park Ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lighting strikes 3 times in his lifetime, and survive.
2006-09-12 01:51:21 · answer #6 · answered by Liwayway 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More like a mathematics and a physics question....
It very much depends on the item it strikes: The Empire State building has been hit several times already, my old oak tree - once in 60 years.
So, different structures have different mathematical probabilities to be struck twice...
2006-09-12 00:53:30 · answer #7 · answered by Marianna 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
Lightning Fact And Fiction
Fiction: Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
Fact: Lightning has "favorite" sites that it may hit many times during one storm.
2006-09-12 00:58:27 · answer #8 · answered by sunflowerlizard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-09-12 00:59:54 · answer #9 · answered by akshay k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, after a while though
2006-09-12 00:53:35 · answer #10 · answered by phychic! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋