Thunder and Lightning Amazing Weather Facts


The temperature of a typical lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the Sun!

The temperature of a typical lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the Sun!

Lightning "Crawlers" over seventy five (75) miles long have been observed by Radar!

Thunder can only be heard about 12 miles away under good quiet outdoor conditions.

Most lightning strikes average 2 to 3 miles long and carry a current of 10000 Amps at 100 million Volts.

The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000. Each second there are 50 to 100 Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strikes to the Earth world-wide.

A typical flash of folk lightning lasts for about 0.2 seconds.

At any particular time, there are approximately 1,800 thunderstorms occurring in the Earth's atmosphere.