Lightning always lethal to tree

Lightning always lethal to tree

Trees are not very good conductors of electricity.

You can sometimes see the sooty residue left on parts of the tree after a strike like this. You may well notice the tree will appear to be undamaged and continue to grow well.

Lightning that “hits the ground” is actually a current discharge traveling from the ground up to the cloud.

Clouds develop negative charge, which causes positive charge to gathers in the ground underneath it

Now air is a great insulator, but ionized air is a pretty good conductor, and the charge in the cloud ionizes the air around it

When lightning hits a tree, damage can range along a scale from minimally invasive to explosive.

Lightning protection systems can be installed to protect especially valuable or vulnerable trees.

Lightning can strike whenever there’s a thunderstorm, and the temperature of a lightning flash can be five times hotter than the sun.

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