2007-10-03 13:47:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
A tree taller than the other trees in the surrounding area. If the tree is wet, the chances are more.That is why people will be advised not to take shelter under a tree if there is rain and thunderstorm.
2007-10-03 20:03:44 · answer #1 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Very exciting question! i don't have very a good number of adventure to entice on, yet of the quite few wood that i've got seen that have been struck by way of lightning (and weren't status on my own in a field), the final public have been o.ok.. that doesn't advise plenty, although, because of the fact i can basically remember a pair of Black o.ok., a single White Oak, a Silver Maple and a Blackgum. we don't have Cottonwoods around here very plenty, yet i'm uncertain approximately that reasoning - around here, it somewhat is the Sycamores which improve extraordinarily tall and alongside watercourses, so as which you will anticipate them to 'draw' lightning by way of that good judgment. i can't keep in mind ever seeing a Sycamore (and that i've got seen plenty) that confirmed lightning scars. there may well be some fact to the concept that some wood are plenty greater probable than others to be struck, yet i does not look at water content cloth as much as whether one style greater beneficial than others became probable to furnish off chemical aspects with a favorable ionic charge or some thing alongside those lines. I have no concept whether this style of element might make a good number of a distinction with the point of charge that triggers a lightning strike, in spite of the undeniable fact that that's a neat concept.
2016-12-14 06:56:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the others said, a tall one. Lightning doesn't attract to a certain type. It's not a person or animal, it can't tell. Trees are just tall so that's what lightening hits.
2007-10-03 17:00:26 · answer #3 · answered by St. Louis Cardinals Fan 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Lightning strikes tall trees. But that's not all, there's also metal and water that conduct electricity as well.
2007-10-03 17:30:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There really is no species of tree that lightning is "attracted" to. However, the tallest and largest attract lightning.
2007-10-03 16:23:49 · answer #5 · answered by dudley997997 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
More specifically, a tree that is not only tall, but taller than other objects or trees around it.
2007-10-03 13:57:18 · answer #6 · answered by Doc E 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A tallest one and most likely in an open area that have less object around.
2007-10-03 19:42:18 · answer #7 · answered by jason 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Tall, wet trees.
2007-10-03 14:58:36 · answer #8 · answered by Sandy G 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
A tall one.
2007-10-03 13:55:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A tall ,moist one.
2007-10-03 15:42:52 · answer #10 · answered by Renaissance Man 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋