2007-09-10 04:58:10 · 8 answers · asked by Chris B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
IT DOES
2007-09-10 05:08:36 · answer #1 · answered by Weatherman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lightning does strike the same place twice. Even som unfortunate people multiple times. It is just an old wives tale that says that it doesnt. If you track all lightning strikes in an area for a lomng enough time, you will se repeats. Only reason why we don't see it hit the same place is we don't watch long enough. Lightning will hit anywhere and anything that provides the best conduit to the ground. It does not matter if it is a metal pole or a tree or you. Whatever it finds as the best route it will follow even bypassing obviously better routes.
2016-03-18 03:23:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-09-10 05:06:30 · answer #3 · answered by Creeva 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
That is not true. The study of lighting strikes is a probabilistic topic, and it depends on many factors such us:
1.- Isoceraunic index of your region (number of days per year that you heard a thunder, related mathematically and statistically to the number of lightning strikes per km2 per year).
2.- Structures hight
3.- Environmental conditions
and others.............
There is no physical reason nor proofs to say that a lighting can never strike twice in the same place!!.
Sorry about my English.
2007-09-10 06:52:31 · answer #4 · answered by Alfredo G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an old wives tale (I guess 'urban myth' is now the 'politically correct' term ☺)
Lightning quite frequently strikes the same place many times. Ask anyone in the midwest who has a lightning rod next to their house or barn.
Doug
2007-09-10 05:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because,once a lightning strikes the tallest structure in an area,it gets damaged and becomes the shortest structure in the area.So lightning will not strike it again.
Sorry, I am just joking.
In fact,There is the possibility of frequent lightning attack on the tallest structure in an area .That is why they are protected by installing lightning arresters.Lightning arrestors save them not only from one attack but also from many such attacks.
2007-09-10 06:37:28 · answer #6 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
lightning can strike twice like the lightning poles on top of tall buildings
2007-09-10 05:22:33 · answer #7 · answered by ♥jazzy♥ 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is a metaphore, not true.
2007-09-10 05:37:52 · answer #8 · answered by dazdncrazed 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋