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Lightning Facts
-There are 80 lighting strikes around the world in a minute.
-There are 8 milllion lightning strikes each day.
- In The United States there are 20 million lightning strikes each year.
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How Far Way is Lighting From You? In order to find out how far away lightining is away from you, use the "Flash and Bang Method." 1. During a thunderstorm wait for the lightning flash. 2. Count how many seconds elapse until a thunder crash. 3. Divide the number of seconds elapsed by 5. |
-Some people have been struck by lighting over 20 times in their life time. - The average annual per capita strike rate in the United States is around 1 in 600,000 - Approximately One death occurrs for every 345,000 lightning flashes - The average lightning flash would light a 100 watt light bulb
for 3 months. |
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Copyright 2001 Nate, and Kavi. This website was created using Dreamweaver 4, Microsoft FrontPage 2000, and Eversoft 1st page 2000 (free verstion). This website was created for Thinkquest.org, for a website competition. More information about this contest can be found here. We are team C0120505.