does lightning strike twice?

Answer 1

I heard on the radio recently about a guy who has been struck by lightning twice..once in the butt!

Answer 2

Yes. The tallest building in the city with a lightening conductor would be a very easy target for a double strike.
And even in nature there will be places that attract lightning more than others.

If all the world was just a flat plain, the strikes would be more random, and a strike in the same spot would be very rare. But the world aint like that.

Answer 3

Actually, Yes it does, and quite often. I read a great National
Geographic issue once all about lightening. Besides lots of other info it talked about people who have been struck by lightening multiple times. This is due largely to where they live. Lightening does have a tendency to visit the same places frequently for a variety of reasons.


On average, lightning strikes the earth about 100 times every second. "Lightning Alley", referring to Interstate 4 between Orlando and St. Petersburg FL, collectively sees more lightning strikes per year than any other place in the US. "Lightning Alley" averages 120 thunderstorm days per year.[citation needed] The Empire State Building is struck by lightning on average 23 times each year, and was once struck 8 times in 24 minutes. [52]

Singapore has one of the highest rates of lightning activity in the world.[53] The city of Teresina in northern Brazil has the third-highest rate of occurrences of lightning strikes in the world. The surrounding region is referred to as the Chapada do Corisco ("Flash Lightning Flatlands").

Roy Sullivan held a Guinness World Record after surviving 7 different lightning strikes across 35 years. [54]

Answer 4

According to the Official Empire State Building web site it gets hit about 100 times a year. I have seen photographs of buildings being hit multiple times in one storm.

So YES lightning does strike twice in the same place.

Answer 5

yes, lightning strikes are actually multiple smaller strikes and lightning can strike the same spot twice. So either way, yes.

Answer 6

Lightning strikes not only twice, but thousands of times every day.

Grammar: Learn it. Love it.

Answer 7

Only after objections were voiced by the American Catholic Church. The first lightening rods were manufactured and offered for sale by one Benjamin Franklin, 1706-90, but not
before the leading religious authorities condemned its use
because device spared each owner the full wrath of God.
Upon usage the fist of God frequently was seen attracted to
this American invention but without other punishment.

Answer 8

Yes and you can actually see it sometimes. It will be like a double strike one right after another.

Answer 9

yes, take for example a lightning rod which is placed on skyscrapers, the they are stroken atleast five times per day

Answer 10

Yes! But not in the same spot!