Another danger to avoid during a lightening storm that was not mentioned, is using water from your tap or shower. Lightening can potentially run through the ground and therefore your pipes, which could electrocute you if the conditions are right.
I just take my anti-lightening medicine before I go out into any storm. I have never been hit by lightening. What's funny is the same medicine also keeps elephants any rhinos away.
Being underwater should be relatively safe, since you're whole body is surrounded by conductive ionic water, so it acts like a faraday cage. your body would only experience a relatively small voltage and virtually no heat from the lightning bolt.
+daniel117100 Pure water is safe. However, in nature and swimming pools, there enough chemicals that would give water great conduction. Semantics, but a very minor point of order.
callowaymotorcompany Of course its arbitrary, its a unit of measurement, most of them are arbitrary (except things like electronVolt). I clearly stated "reasonable". By that I mean I know immidiately how many meters there are in 5.682Km, whereas I'd have no idea how many feet there are in 5.689 miles.
+MrRolnicek You're not supposed to use decimal numbers in imperial units as much as possible. You should use miles and feet, and then decimalize the feet or use inches if you need to be spcefic.
+jaocheu interrestinly enought, if you are wet, it is safer than if you are dry. The lightning, if you are wet, will have a tendency of flowing in that water layer and less power will flow throught you. If you are dry, the lightning will punch a hole throught your skin, travel inside you and punch another hole somewhere (in your foot?) and out to the ground.
Isn't there some kind of lightning that travels for miles and miles through the sky before it finally strikes the ground? I'm sure I heard about that somewhere but now I'm beginning to think I dreamed it up because I cant find anything about it anywhere.
It's also theorized that lightning gets its source from outer space - literally. The x-radiation detected in strikes along with the notion of "dark lightning" gives rise to this intriguing idea.
Don't use umbrellas and don't stand under trees, especially under solitary trees at hilltops. And don't use a phone, even a mobile one - as it has plenty of metal inside and can 'attract' lightning.
Once I went to camp and we were all n door . And the one guy was standing in a puddle of water and the lightening struck him n he foot and t started to bleed. Note, it was a three story building and we were on the ground floor and we were indoor. That is why I'm scared of lightening up to the day. And that was many years ago.
Lee Trevino, the golfer, had a different solution: if caught by a thunder storm on the golf course, immediately hold a one-iron over your head, as "not even God can hit a one-iron". I'm not sure to what extent this has been tested, or with what result.
+Dima idf You're safe in a car, but not because of the rubber wheels. The metal cage around you is much more conductive than you, so the lightning "prefers" to travel through it, rather than through you. Even if the wheels were metal, you'd still be safe for this reason.
+BELOWIT MB In dry air at 20 °C, the speed of sound is 343.2 metres per second (1,126 ft/s). This is ... a kilometre in 2.914 s or a mile in 4.689 s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
I searched "lightning" on TH-cam, and found this. Right now, I like in Vegas, and its July 1st, so almost the fourth, and so sometimes I can't tell whether or not the light in the clouds was lightning or a firework......
+Gasper Kosmac Then you're at least being scientific... but it is (the sun's not actually very hot as evidenced by the yellowish nature of its light, it's just there's a LOT of it). An electric arc is MUCH hotter, but generally smaller
+ Snakeyes244 Just convention more than anything else. There was a "change" that has taken hold for governmental engineered projects starting in the mid-1960's, but by no means has it been willingly universally adopted in all areas of daily life, as in people still go to the pub to "have a (Imperial) pint", not to have "568 milliliters" of beer.
+Snakeyes244 Our road system still uses miles so people are most familiar with that. Scientifically we use metric but socially a lot of people still swear blindly by the imperial system.
Another danger to avoid during a lightening storm that was not mentioned, is using water from your tap or shower. Lightening can potentially run through the ground and therefore your pipes, which could electrocute you if the conditions are right.
I just take my anti-lightening medicine before I go out into any storm. I have never been hit by lightening. What's funny is the same medicine also keeps elephants any rhinos away.
+AndyFromBeaverton That made me laugh pretty hard. Thanks.
Misconception: water is a terrible conductor but the ions in the water are what conducts electricity
+SkinnyBill never knew my water would be full of water
+daniel117100 Isn't it that since water is a terrible conductor, the lightning will go through us instead - since we conduct it better?
+daniel117100 Water will still make your skin much more conductive than if it were dry.
Being underwater should be relatively safe, since you're whole body is surrounded by conductive ionic water, so it acts like a faraday cage. your body would only experience a relatively small voltage and virtually no heat from the lightning bolt.
+daniel117100 Pure water is safe. However, in nature and swimming pools, there enough chemicals that would give water great conduction. Semantics, but a very minor point of order.
Or divide by 3 to get a reasonable unit of distance.
Arbitrary, arbitrary, and more arbitrary.
callowaymotorcompany Of course its arbitrary, its a unit of measurement, most of them are arbitrary (except things like electronVolt). I clearly stated "reasonable". By that I mean I know immidiately how many meters there are in 5.682Km, whereas I'd have no idea how many feet there are in 5.689 miles.
+callowaymotorcompany standard, standard, and more standard
+MrRolnicek You're not supposed to use decimal numbers in imperial units as much as possible. You should use miles and feet, and then decimalize the feet or use inches if you need to be spcefic.
CoWinkKeyDinkInc inches is not even specific. We do things in millimeters.
i can get lighting through my cellphone?
or should i just not use the 1850's hand-cranked magneto generator telephone in the hall?
maybe ,but i would like to be sure ;)
+Barrie Max If you have one of those, sell it.
+Barrie Max try both and post the effects here.
Vovô Mark excellent idea! ill get right on it.
***** should i sell it with a warning?
Or you can stay in the car, as Richard Hammond demonstrated.
+Tuan Do wow it's been sooo long ago!
"Avoid water" you're in a rainstorm.
+jaocheu just find a nice big tree atop a hill (so you don't get flooded) and sit under it, nice and dry. :D
+KPbICMAH except trees attract lightning.
Reinis Frīdbergs but at least you'll be nice and dry when lightning strikes. :)
+jaocheu What if i rephrased it to "avoid bodies of water", would it help?
+jaocheu interrestinly enought, if you are wet, it is safer than if you are dry. The lightning, if you are wet, will have a tendency of flowing in that water layer and less power will flow throught you. If you are dry, the lightning will punch a hole throught your skin, travel inside you and punch another hole somewhere (in your foot?) and out to the ground.
Animations used here to explain this topic is damn crazy...😎😎😎👽
Isn't there some kind of lightning that travels for miles and miles through the sky before it finally strikes the ground? I'm sure I heard about that somewhere but now I'm beginning to think I dreamed it up because I cant find anything about it anywhere.
Stay indoors and watch James may on TH-cam
+SuperWisdom so you can fall asleep
This hardly explained how to avoid lightning
I know right? How misleading lol
No steel object, no water, stay indoors? What a delightful Guide! thanks!
This guy might be British but I trust him
Sick animation!
When you say "Don't use the phone", you can nowdays, as long as it's wireless.
+Sandwich247 That'd be a cellular radio. ;)
How to avoid being hit by lightning :
Step 1: Avoid thunderstorm
Done
It's also theorized that lightning gets its source from outer space - literally. The x-radiation detected in strikes along with the notion of "dark lightning" gives rise to this intriguing idea.
the answer to the question starts at 2:15
sick animations lad
Don't use umbrellas and don't stand under trees, especially under solitary trees at hilltops. And don't use a phone, even a mobile one - as it has plenty of metal inside and can 'attract' lightning.
Who did the animations for this episode?
how to end war: add more james may.
"Water is also a good conductor of electricity"... Did James actually study science when he was at school?
So, how do we avoid it?..
Vampires? This is not how you would explain how lightnings work
Can I charge my phone if I stick it up the sky and lightning goes through it?
what if I want to get struck by lightning?!
Then be near metal, use the phone, go outside, and if none of the above works, you're screwed.
Just Go On The Top Of a Building and hold a Long Metal Rod Pointing to the Sky.If This Doesn't Work I don't know what will :p (jk)
Suicidal?
@@Sammie551 I don't remember making that comment. But it was 8 years ago. At that date and time, maybe?
Now we know that James still uses an old phone with a wire.
Is it true you should avoid having a shower or bath?
At 0:46 you hear the beginning theme from the movie Beetlejuice. It's Showtime!
Stay indoors.
velcoity of sound x time interval between lightning and thunder = distance where the thunderstorm is taking place, right
Once I went to camp and we were all n door . And the one guy was standing in a puddle of water and the lightening struck him n he foot and t started to bleed. Note, it was a three story building and we were on the ground floor and we were indoor. That is why I'm scared of lightening up to the day. And that was many years ago.
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Lee Trevino, the golfer, had a different solution: if caught by a thunder storm on the golf course, immediately hold a one-iron over your head, as "not even God can hit a one-iron".
I'm not sure to what extent this has been tested, or with what result.
I have the a doubt: are there upward lightnings....I mean, from ground to clouds?? Thanks a lot
"how To Avoid Being Hit By Lightning - James May's Things You MAY Need To Know - Brit Lab - BBC " - would have been a better title
can you safely take a shower or bath in a lightning storm?
but what about if you're in a car? cars got rubber wheels, so does it help?
+Dima idf You're safe in a car, but not because of the rubber wheels. The metal cage around you is much more conductive than you, so the lightning "prefers" to travel through it, rather than through you. Even if the wheels were metal, you'd still be safe for this reason.
+TheHue's SciTech Indeed, lightning just travelled half a mile from the sky, a few more inches ain't gonna bother it
+Dima idf If lightning can travel from the sky to your car, do you think it can travel from your car to the ground?
can anyone explain why you divide by 5?
+BELOWIT MB
In dry air at 20 °C, the speed of sound is 343.2 metres per second (1,126 ft/s). This is ... a kilometre in 2.914 s or a mile in 4.689 s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
why is James May so hot
is time traveling really possible
Ben Frank’s experiment never was repeated.. I think that story was made up
Well any phone wired, but there's little chance anyone has a wired phone now days
Technically you can predict where it will strike. Example top of the empire state building. agree you can predict when
+YeCannyDaeThat When and where* Of course it will strike on top of the empire state building, but when?
+robert karas During a thunderstorm?
Swesen3D Thats not a specific time... Being that broad we can say lighting will hit at least once on the planet earth within the next 100 years
robert karas It was a joke.
can i cook ma food then , by sticking it up in the sky
Q:
A: move faster than lightning
i say the best solution is: to hide in a box like in metal gear and you should be safe. just dont fart cause that conducts electricity too.
Why times by five ??
Divide. Divide. DIVIDE.
I searched "lightning" on TH-cam, and found this. Right now, I like in Vegas, and its July 1st, so almost the fourth, and so sometimes I can't tell whether or not the light in the clouds was lightning or a firework......
Well not having a shirt on cause lightning to strike you?
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i don't believe that a bold is 5 times hotter than the sun sorry May
+Gasper Kosmac Then you're at least being scientific... but it is (the sun's not actually very hot as evidenced by the yellowish nature of its light, it's just there's a LOT of it). An electric arc is MUCH hotter, but generally smaller
+TheChipmunk2008 sun is hot, it's just not that hot on the outside where all of the energy escapes it.
+TheChipmunk2008 That's only for the surface, which is is about 5000 degrees Celsius. the core of the sun is several million degrees hotter.
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Why use miles in a British video? Shouldn't it be km?
+ Snakeyes244 Just convention more than anything else. There was a "change" that has taken hold for governmental engineered projects starting in the mid-1960's, but by no means has it been willingly universally adopted in all areas of daily life, as in people still go to the pub to "have a (Imperial) pint", not to have "568 milliliters" of beer.
+Snakeyes244 Our road system still uses miles so people are most familiar with that. Scientifically we use metric but socially a lot of people still swear blindly by the imperial system.
+Snakeyes244 We use Miles generally, just like we use mph instead of kph. I should be brought to the 21st century sometime soon.
,,and dont take a bath/shower, or have a wee
But if I have to pee my pants, will the pee attract lightning?
+Marcello Penk-Masucci might but look on bright side,, pants will be dried really fast