The More You Know ★
The More You Know ★
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Lightning strikes the ground approximately 25 million times each year in the U.S.
• Chance of being struck by lighting each year: 1 in 240,000
• Odds of being struck by lighting in your lifetime: 1 in 3000
• Lightning can have 100 million to 1 billion volts, billion watts
• A bolt of lighting can reach temperatures 53,000° F
• The suns surface temperature is 6,000° F
• Lightning does not always strike the tallest object
• Lightning can strike from the sky down or the ground up
• Lightning heats the air from 18,000° F to 60,000° F
• Lightning can strike the same place twice
• Florida receives 1.5 millions lighting strikes per year- lightning, u scaryscarabin
- hotter than the sun... JC!bklyndroobeki
- ban lightning/yurimon