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Curious Lightning Facts: It Can Hit the Same Place Twice

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16 June 2022

Curious Lightning Facts
It Can Hit the Same Place Twice

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Lightning is a spectacular phenomenon, and while it can be dangerous, it lights up the night sky magnificently.

Here are some curious facts about lightning:

  • There are over 100 lightning strikes every second around the world, leading to over 8.6 million lightning strikes every day. That’s a lot of electricity.
  • In India, lightning frequency increases rapidly during pre-monsoon, stays high during the monsoon, and rises again when the monsoon is retreating in September.
  • The most prone lightning area in India is the whole north-eastern region, Bihar, Odisha, Jammu Kashmir, and Uttarakhand.
  • Lightning is unsurprisingly hotter than the sun. On average, lightning can be as hot as 30,000 degrees. That’s five times hotter than the sun!
  • The phrase “Lightning never strikes the same place twice” is actually not correct. Lightning will strike the same places multiple times. The Empire State Building in New York gets struck about 23 times every year.
  • Lastly, while 85% of lightning strike victims are men, women's fatality rate is greater.
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