lightning????

Question

is it true that lightening can strike the same place twice

Answer 1

Yes it is true.





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Answer 2

The location of the strike is not the primary mater. Lightning can occur from cloud to ground or ground to cloud. The only requirement is that the physics and atmospheric conditions remain ripe to result in the electric discharge. Therefore, the facts are that the conditions bring the strike not the site. That is why lightening can strike the same place twice, frankly lightening does not care about the strike location at all. It will strike when ready due to the mechanics behind the event, period.

Answer 3

Scientists have filmed lightning using a very high speed camera to record lightning strikes and have discovered that lightning actually strikes 3 or 4 times in one "strike". It happens so fast that the human eye only sees the one strike. Therefore lightning does strike the same place twice and even more times. This is known as re-strike.

Answer 4

Yes, in fact it's more likely than you may think.

http://sky-fire.tv/index.cgi/lightning.html#twice has this to say:

Can lightning strike twice?
In many ways. As mentioned, in a typical lightning flash, often several strokes hit the same spot in rapid succession. Tall structures and buildings such as the Empire State Building in New York City, the Hancock Building in Chicago and the CN Tower in Toronto are hit many times each year. This fact has actually led to lightning research programs using structures like these. In general any object struck by lightning is generally a better candidate to be struck again than something which hasn’t been zapped.

And then lightning does strike twice...and sometimes with apparent malevolence. On 8 August 1937, three persons were killed by a bolt that struck the Jacob Riis Park beach in New York. On 7 August 1938, almost a year to the day later, lightning again struck the same beach, and again killed 3 bathers. And don’t tell a homeowner in Arvada, CO that lightning doesn’t strike twice. His new house was struck during a summer thunderstorm and sustained considerable damage. Just as they were getting things back in shape six weeks later-shazaam! resulting in $30,000 more in fire damage.

Answer 5

Yes, it is quite possible for lightning to strike a place (or a person) more than once.

The myth that lightning can only strike once in a place dates at least back to ancient Greece, where Zeus hurled bolts from Olympus.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the Norse had a similar superstition for Thor, although I can't prove it.

Answer 6

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.Singapore has one of the

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.

In July 2007, lightning killed up to 30 people when it struck a remote mountain village Ushari Dara in northwestern Pakistan. [56] Also, in Deerfield Beach, Florida lightning struck a diver's air tank as he surfaced off Florida's Atlantic coast, killing him. He had surfaced about 10 meters (30 feet) from the boat when lightning struck his tank.

Answer 7

When lightening appears to strike the ground it is infact travelling upwards, so there is every possibility that it will strike the same place twice.

Answer 8

Yes it can strike pretty much the exact same place twice. for example at the Cape Canaveral in Florida whose shuttle launch pad gets struck by lightning. Often more than once in a single storm.

Answer 9

yes, since lightening goes for the tallest thing because it trys to find the quickest way to the ground, that's why people tell you not to walk in the middle of a field when it is lightening and go under a tree.

Answer 10

Sure, Empire State building gets struck 25 times a year on average.

Answer 11

Yes.
Tall buildings & bridge towers are often struck
repeatedly. - Such structures have steel frames,
and lightning rods to safely ground the strikes.