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What happens to the occupants of a metal-hulled boat when lightning strikes the water?
The lightning is conducted through the metal to discharge into the water. Metal-hulled boats, airplanes, and buildings are frequently hit by lightning with no harm to the occupants.
What direction does lightning strike?
Lightning strikes from the sky when a channel of charged ions reaches down from the sky to connect with a channel of the opposite charge that is reaching up. This causes a flash of light called a step leader when electricity travels between the charges.
Why cant you swim in a thunderstorm?
Water (unless pure H2O) isan excellent conductor of electric current. During thunderstorms lightning may hit the water and any swimmer in it may suffer injuries, even if the lightning does not strike the swimmer directly.
What is the process that creates or causes thunder?
Lightning appears when condensed water (think of clouds) turns into ice crystals and water droplets, and wind smashes this together, because of this energy the wind puts in this hail, positive and negative particles are separated. When there is enough of a charge difference lightning strikes either moving from one part of the storm to another or hitting the ground. Thunder is the sound produced by lightning. It occurs as the lightning instantaneously heats the air to tens of thousands of degrees. The air expands rapidly and sends out a shockwave.
What type of electricity causes lightning?
it is the kenetic energy produced by water molecules rubbing against each other that's also why lightning is hot because of the molecules rubing together and heating up Electric charge is not kinetic energy. Lightning is Electrostatic charge finding its way back to earth, from where it originally came. The electrical energy is converted to heat in the materials it strikes.
What happens to the occupants of a metal-hulled boat when lightning strikes the water?
The lightning is conducted through the metal to discharge into the water. Metal-hulled boats, airplanes, and buildings are frequently hit by lightning with no harm to the occupants.
Are weeping willow trees prone to lightning strikes?
They are prone to lightning strikes. The high water content of willows makes them relatively good electrical conductors and so they get more than their share of lightning strikes.
Why does lightning strike near water?
Lightning strikes strike near water because water is a good conductor of electricity. Most lightning strikes happen by the ocean because the salt makes it an even better conductor at electricity than fresh water.
When lightning strikes a body of water are all the inhabitants electrocuted?
no
Why are boats on lakes or on the ocean especially vulnerable to lightning strikes?
Because lightning strikes the highest available target, and boats are usually the highest thing on the water..Stay off the water during storms!
Why is it that you are directed to get out of the water in swimming pool when there is lightining?
It is for your own safety. If the lightning strikes the water, it will hurt you.
If lightning strikes a lake or river does it strike the ground below the water?
yes it can:)
When lightning strikes the the sea why don't all the fish die?
Before a lightning strike, a charge builds up along the water's surface. When lightning strikes, most of electrical charge occurs near the water's surface. Most fish swim below the surface and are unaffected.
What happens if you are shocked by lightning while in the water?
you get shocked :D
What happens when solar energy from the sun strikes a body of water?
The water, as if by magic, becomes warmer.
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.
What direction does lightning strike?
Lightning strikes from the sky when a channel of charged ions reaches down from the sky to connect with a channel of the opposite charge that is reaching up. This causes a flash of light called a step leader when electricity travels between the charges.
