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When and where are your chances of being struck by lightning

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If it is raining and your on wet land

The thunderstorm lightning is generated by the collision of the charged clouds in the earth's atmosphere. It has a tendency to flow to the earth because it acts as a reservoir for the electrical charges.

In the following condition a person is prone to be struck by lightning:

When a person is standing below tall buildings having no provision of dissipating the electrical lightening because it provides a low resistance path for the flow of charge to the earth.

When a person is standing below a tall tree it also provides low resistance and high conductivity path for the charges to flow to the reservoir earth.

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