2007-03-21 18:13:02 · 10 answers · asked by SHAARON K 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Even if your yard doesn't have any trees and your house in the tallest thing for miles, there is a very good chance that you have a lightning rod on you house. Be it an official lightning rod, or a satellite antenna or what not. Lightning wont always hit the tallest object if a shorter object has a stronger electrical current. Your sunroof, however, sound have no electrical current, and wont be the tallest object, so no worries.
2007-03-21 21:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by weathermanpeter 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just be sure your house is grounded. Put a wire down from your antennae or lightning rod so it draws the lightning into the ground instead of your computer, TV, household appliances and skylight. Whether or not your house is already fixed up with a lightening rod depends on how old it is. Check it out.
2007-03-21 20:01:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your home has a lightning rod which will gives a better path from the sky to the ground. Glass is as good an insulator as plywood, so the skylight carries the same risk as the rest of your roof.
2007-03-21 18:21:54 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Not much of a chance at all. Lightning, as un-predictable as it is, just has a nasty habit of hitting the highest, nearest source for a ground. This is why we put lightning rods on the top of buildings and towers etc. This is why it will strike a tree in an open area and not just strike the ground. It is looking for the easiest path for a discharge at a point in time and finding that path via a sky light on a roof with all kinds of other near by targets is just not likely.
2007-03-21 18:26:54 · answer #4 · answered by Dusty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be more afraid of water leaking through the seal of the window and ruining your kitchen. Never heard of lighting coming through usually it wants to hit the tallest thing around like a tree in your yard instead.
2007-03-21 18:17:00 · answer #5 · answered by fyrechick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also have a skylight and last year there were a whole bunch of storms. I can tell you that this hasn't happened to me.
2007-03-21 18:17:14 · answer #6 · answered by chocolategirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not often enough for you to even consider worrying about. Go ahead and put in your skylight.
2007-03-21 18:20:58 · answer #7 · answered by lyllyan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that lighting will strike through glass. It will probably strike something else that is taller nearby like a TV antenna or tall tree.
2007-03-21 18:16:28 · answer #8 · answered by Mike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of it happening. I think the only thing you'd need to fear is not getting a tight enough seal on your windows and having them leak and need to replacement in 5 years.
2007-03-21 18:15:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
lightning,and no.put it in and be happy.!!
2007-03-21 18:16:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋