Lightning can strike the same place multiple times, with the Empire State Building being hit over 20 times a year. The odds of being struck by lightning are higher than most people think, and it is one of the deadliest climate-related killers in the US. Lightning can strike in more than one place and can heat the air to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Contrary to popular belief, lightning can strike the same place twice. In fact, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it does this often, and the odds of being struck by lightning are about 45 percent higher than most people think. New York’s Empire State Building is hit more than 20 times a year. The record holder for being struck by lightning multiple times is Roy Sullivan, a former park ranger in Shenandoah National Park, who was struck by lightning seven times over the course of 35 years and survived each time.
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Lightning is one of the deadliest climate-related killers in the United States, killing about 90 people and injuring about 300 each year. Approximately 3,700 people died from lightning strikes in the United States between 1959 and 2003. The only weather phenomena more deadly than lightning in the United States are extreme heat and flooding.
While most people tend to think that lighting is amazing in only one spot at a time, that too is a misconception. In fact, lightning strikes in more than one place about a third of the time.
Lightning can heat the air to around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (about 27,760 degrees Celsius), which is about five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
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