I just learned that it's possible that right before lightning is about to hit you individual hair might stand up from your head and arms and that this is basically nature's last fucking warning that you should instantly crouch with your feet together, your hands on your ears and your mouth open
>>5150073the cool thing is, that's literally the exact same phenominon as your hair standing up when you rub a balloon on it. lighting is just really extreme static electricity after all.
>>5150074Yeah. It's fascinating but of course really unsettling to think about
it's basically telling you that the crosshairs is aimed at you already
>>5150073Different type of lightning does that.And squatting wont help, the lightning path is already defined.I experienced it once in my shop. (Metal building).I heard it arc off the ground system in the power panel then lightning struck the building.
>>5150073I've been close enough to a lightning strike to feel this once. I was sitting on my front porch during a storm when a tree was struck by lightning across the street. Very spooky feeling.
>>5150073>remember, the lighting will always look for the shorter route to the ground, usually a tall tree or tower>meanwhile some random soccer player
>>5150094>And squatting wont helpthe main idea is to at least keep your feet together because if they are apart the difference in amps and voltage between those two is already enough for current to flow through your body even when you don't get struck but something else in close proximity.
How do we increase how much lightning there is? I love lightning.
>>5150166global warming, hot air needs to move up against cold air to create static within clouds, which then ionizes the cloud and the ground
>>5150173Can't we just get some guy to fly up there in a plane or helicopter and rub the air together?
>>5150173wouldn't there be less lightning if the air was less cold then?
>>5150204no, because air cools down pretty quickly in the upper layers of the atmosphere, that why planes have to be prepared for ice forming on them, that motion of air going up and down from temperature changes causes ice particles to rub up against each other to create static in clouds, thats why you see a lot of lightning around tornadoes, because those are the same conditions
>>5150173Bullshit. With global warming the coldest places on earth are gradually coming up in temperature too. Jet stream will more and more slow down because of the weakening differences and as a result weather will slow down a whole lot and places that got regularly spicy weather might have absurdly long periods of nothing happening while other places will get shit slammed for weeks with no changes
>>5150101>a tree was struck by lightning across the streetHappened to me too, was so damn loud.Thought a propane tank had exploded or something.
>>5150486thats not how that works at all, see>>5150262
>>5150073That's some useful advice OP
>>5150073>>5150575I think sometimes you also hear a hum, buzz, vibrate immediately before a strike
>>5150599I just saw a video yesterday of a climber who almost gets hit by lightning. You can clearly hear the buzzing for a couple of seconds before it hit.
>>5150599yeah it's like a shattering/snapping of tree limbs. when strikes are close it's rarely ever just the big boom right away
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>>5150575What's insane is that there are videos on social media of people filming themselves with their hair flying up due to that static electricity completely oblivious of the imminent fucking danger
>>5150705nothing you do will save you at that point, youre kinda fucked already if you arent under something because all you can do is hope it doesnt hit you specifically
>>5150073I've felt that a couple times up on 14ers in Colorado. Luckily I was under a rock each time. One time my rock hammer started humming on Antero. I tossed it down the mountain but lightning never hit it.
>>5150883>One time my rock hammer started humming on Antero.spooky
I was in the back with my golden doodle and a lightning hit the trampoline, I was looking at the dog and the instant it struck before the flash blew my eyes out I saw his fur go FWOOF
>>5151089did he diet
>>5150073When my dad tells me his boomer stories he often tells me about some coach at his highschool that got mike pence'd on the field during his football practice in HS
