when you are in a thunderstorm and you feel your hair stand on end, plus a tingling feeling, you have a positive streamer coming up from the ground trying to connect with the negative leader coming down from the clouds, from the moment you feel the tingiling sensation how long do you have to react before the positive streamer connects with the leader and you get struck by lightning?
2006-10-22 05:06:44 · 9 answers · asked by csnape2003 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
I would think that you would have little or no reaction time at all
2006-10-22 05:14:52 · answer #1 · answered by chefzilla65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While caddying at the Country Club in a rain storm with thunder and lightning, a bolt crashed down on the green maybe 30 yards away. There was no warning; but, then, I was not struck, it was a near miss...close enough that I could smell the ozone, which typically is formed by the lightning bolt. And, instead of a rolling thunder sound, the bolt sounded like a huge whip being cracked in the air.
Accounts of people being struck (and surviving) and of people who have felt the ionization precursor to a bolt indicate there is a wide variance. In one extreme, the feeling and the bolt are practically instantaneous. In the other extreme, the cloud to Earth bolt never materializes and the tingling just goes away as the clouds pass overhead.
2006-10-22 05:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by oldprof 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No much of reaction, because when someone feel tingling sensation they will look around what makes them feel uncomfortable, till they found themselves being struck by lightning a moment later.
2006-10-22 16:25:06 · answer #3 · answered by Eve W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey don't go out in the rain to get srtuck down by lightning is my advice to you,in a thunder storm your supposed to get out the way before your unlucky to get struck by it.
wish it could get george bush,because he's always lying to us most of the time he does'nt even know what time it is and he would'nt feel if he was to get struck by lighting.honestly he's used to sitting around big nuclear stuff,he would be able to tell you what timeing you will have to get away and out of it.
2006-10-22 05:20:08 · answer #4 · answered by mariolla oneill 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i thought the streamer was instantaneous with the leader ( by intantaneous i mean with in a second)
2006-10-22 05:16:26 · answer #5 · answered by bob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends
2006-10-22 05:16:02 · answer #6 · answered by Jack O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO REACT--THATS WHY PEOPLE GET NUKED BY LIGHTNING.
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
TAKE SHELTER BEFORE YOU GET ZAPPED.
2006-10-22 08:31:46 · answer #7 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good God, does this really happen?
2006-10-22 05:16:46 · answer #8 · answered by iusedtolooklikemyavatar 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i don't know realy...
2006-10-22 05:14:39 · answer #9 · answered by Lay 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋