You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.~ Wayne Gretzky
Just looking through some of the lightning shots from last monday, and figured that it was time for some Fun Facts about lightning, woo-hoo!!
Lightning bolts travel at speeds of up to 60,000 miles per second.
A single lightning bolt travels through twisted paths in the air that can be as wide as one of your fingers or from six to ten miles.
A flash of lightning is brighter than 10,000,000 100-watt light bulbs.
A flash of lightning can pulse as much power as there is in all the power plants in the United States in that split second.
A flash of lightning could power a light bulb for a month.
Trees sometimes can survive direct hits from lightning because the electricity passes over their wet surface and go into the ground.
Florida is the lightning capital of the United States.
Temperatures in the path of a lightning bolt can reach as high as 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
(courtesy of http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/lightning/interesting_facts.htm)