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Jedediah Smith Redwoods SP, CA
"After walking around the base of a lightning-splintered tree, I found this hole exiting from within the tree trunk. I believe it to be a lightning bolt exit hole."
Karen Williams
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Mother Nature's Woodworking
Jedediah Smith Redwoods SP, CA After walking around the base of a lightning-splintered tree, I found this hole exiting from within the tree trunk. I believe it to be a lightning bolt exit hole.Flickr
Trees located on high plateaus in Escalante Utah are susceptible to lightning strikes this one basically exploded open. The ground nearby was littered with wood splinters.
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Electrified Tree
Trees located on high plateaus in Escalante Utah are susecptible to lightning strikes this one basically exploded open. The ground nearby was litter with wood splinters.Flickr
A tree probably struck by lightning.
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I would guess that this tree was struck by lightning
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The Tree Dies
Dying trees will typically have one or more areas that are being ravaged by disease. Since these have most of their water content concentrated deeper in their trunk, any lightning strike can fully penetrate the plant’s center and utterly destroy the tree. This can cause a powerful explosion that will send large and small branches flying (including splinters and huge chunks of wood), and even split the trunk into two.
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What to Do If Your Tree Is Struck by Lightning?
Lightning can undoubtedly be considered as one of the greatest threats to massive trees.American Arborists
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When a tree gets hit by lightning, there are three possible outcomes: The tree escapes damage; it suffers damage but survives with nothing but a scar; it dies.
The Tree Survives
Most of the trees’ water content is stored just under the bark. With water being a superb electrical conductor, the lightning strike will penetrate the outer layers of the tree obliterate them. Lightning blasts will typically scar a tree.
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#Lightning generates temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun, in excess of 20,000 degrees Celsius.
It takes a specific amount of energy to vaporise sand into gas. First the sand has to be heated to around 1700°C, about the temperature of molten lava.
At this temperature, the sand melts. The molten sand then has to heat to just shy of 3000°C, when it vaporises. It takes about 15 megajoules of energy to heat and vaporise a kilogram of sand.
Lichtenberg figures may also appear on the skin of lightning strike victims and typically disappear in 24 hours. They are also known as #Keraunographic markings.
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A woman in West Virginia snapped a one-in-a-million shot of a tree being struck by lightning.
Anthony Conn, a weekend anchor for WCHS, posted the photo to his Twitter account. The photo was sent to him by a woman named Debbie Parker in Hardy County, West Virginia.
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Eine Sammlung von Blitzbildern.
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The Beast
'This was taken from the rocky shores at Kings Beach and was the only strike.’
Photograph: Darren Wassell/TNC Photo Contest 2024
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