Getting stuck by lightning is rough.

How does getting struck by lightning kill you. Sometimes known as lightning tree or lightning flower. The intense heat generated by a lightning strike can burn tissue fuse skin cause lung damage and the chest can be damaged by the mechanical force of rapidly expanding heated air. Enormous quantities of energy pass through the body very quickly resulting in internal burns organ damage explosions of flesh and bone and nervous system damage.

Therefore the odds of you being directly struck are high compared to the odds of the water striking just the water near you. A direct strike is not the only way lightning can kill you. Lightning is indiscriminate and it can find you anywhere.

Lightning strikes an object like a car or metal pole that someone is touching. That heat causes more convection and instability in the atmosphere which in turn causes more lightning-producing storms to. Lightning may hit the ground instead of a tree cars instead of nearby telephone poles and parking lots instead of buildings.

Any way of being struck by lightning can potentially kill or injure someone resulting in cardiac arrest or damage to the neurological system but the way someone is struck may also impact the. Even worse it kills about 47 Americans. The odds of getting struck by lightning in any given year are about 1 in 300000.

Just as lightning prefer high things it also prefers better conduits. Lightning strikes can injure humans in several different ways. It can burn hotter than the sun scar your body and even blow off your clothes.

This happens but such. Thats in addition to bursting blood vessels and damaging the cardiac. A direct strike can cause death by stopping your heart.