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If lightning strikes a lake or river does it strike the ground below the water?
yes it can:)
If lightning strikes a lake can you be struck anywhere in the water?
Yes. Water is a conductor of electricity, thus when electricity strike water, electricity flow through the water, endangering people in the water.
If you are swimming in a lake or river how close would a lightning strike to the water have to be to hurt or kill you?
The distance would depend upon the force of each individual strike.
If you are in a lake can lightning strike a person?
Yes, and if you are in a metal boat in a lake even more so.
Why is it dnagerous to swim in a freshwater lake during an electrical storm?
You can get electrocuted if the lightning strikes near you. Although the strike will dissipate after a short distance.
What happens when lightning strikes water?
salt or fresh water? how far away is the lightning? salt water is more conductive so you will get hurt worse in the ocean than at a lake. this all depends on how close the lightning struck the water.
Does lightning hit water?
In all effect there is little evidence that lightning striking a body of water will create a splash. This is due to there having being very little research on this topic as lightning doesn't often strike over bodies of water mainly due to the fact that bodies of water are usually cooler than land during the warmer summer months that thunderstorms are prevalent. It is for this reason thunderstorms are less likely to develop over water than over land. Another reason why there is little research on water and lightning is that lightning tends to strike the highest point and water is generally the lowest point around. Think of it this way. If you are in a boat conducting lightning research it will be the boat that gets hit and not the water.Actually, lightning does not travel from the clouds to the ground as many people speculate. It actually is shot off from both sources (the ground and sky) and meet in the middle. Therefore, lightning would not nessecarily make a splash in the water. It might heat it up to boiling point and flash boil it, but there would be no splash. It is just like static electricity. There is no sign of a cut on your finger. Trust me, I study meterological science. :)I would think, since the resulting thunder is an explosion caused by the rapidly expanding gasses, that there would be some splash, minute perhaps. So not the lightning itself, but the thunder maybe.When the static discharge travels from the surface to the charged air, the point where it exits is superheated to many hundred degrees F. when this happens the water flash boils and it explodes, which looks like something just "hit" the surface with an object. In many years of sailing i have seen this only twice from a distance when the thunderstorm was over the open ocean. As an edit to the first answer, thunderstorms do form over bodies of water quite often. all you need for a thunderstorm is MIL. Moisture, Instability, Lift. lets see what we have over a body of water that has a mean temp of 70F. Moisture (check) Instability (check) sun heating the surface of the ocean creates warm water vapor) Lift (check) rising water vapor is its own lift mechanism.WitnessLast night (20/11/08) I stood on a balcony overlooking a beach in Queensland, Australia, approx 50m from shore line, during a massive lightning and thunderstorm. As we were watching the show a bolt hit the water about 10 metres from the edge (60m from us). I can tell you, as can the other 30 people there who saw it that as well as a deafening 'crack' the water at impact exploded (splash) in what appeared to be a shower of light and sparks ... needless to say, the only thing that moved faster than the lightning bolt was the exodus from the balcony. So in direct answer to your question ... yes.
What kind of water do people drink the most?
lake water or spring water
What bodies of water did people build dams of of?
a lake
How was Crumes Lake formed?
by strike-slip fault
What did people out in the bush drink?
They drank river or lake water or rain water
How did the Hohokam people provide water for their fields?
they took lake water and cleaned it
