Lightning Flyer

A lightning strike can result

in a cardiac arrest, heart
stopping, at the time of the
injury or suffer irreversible
brain damage.

Lightning is a very powerful

visible electrical discharge from
a cloud. Sometimes lightning
happens between clouds.
Sometimes, in the rain, lighting
goes from cloud to ground. If it
goes from cloud to ground, it
can strike a person. When
lightning strikes, the surface
Lightning is an electric current.
rubs electrons from the
Within a thundercloud, many
lightning, and a spark of
small bits of ice, frozen
electricity shoots from the
raindrops, bump into each other
as they move around in the air. lightning to the surface.
All of those collisions create an
electric charge. After a while, the
whole cloud fills up with
electrical charges. The positive
charges or protons form at the
top of the cloud and the negative
charges or electrons form at the
bottom of the cloud. Since
opposites attract, that causes a
positive charge to build up on the
ground beneath the cloud.

The best way to protect yourself from

lightning is to go inside your house or a
building.