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Lightning strikes are unpredictable because

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Lightening is so unpredictable because of the fact that areas with a high potential for electric energy within a given thunderstorm that are necessary to generate lightening are continuously changing as the storm progresses. Therefore the path that a bolt of lightening will take is almost completely random.

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