![]() As the differences in charges continue to increase, positively charged particles rise up tall objects such as trees, houses, and telephone poles-and people. A moving thunderstorm also gathers positively charged particles along the ground that travel with the storm.Positively charged ice crystals rise to the top of the thunderstorm, and negatively charged ice particles and hailstones drop to the lower parts of the storm. Ice particles collide as they swirl around in a storm, causing a separation of electrical charges. Ice in a cloud may be key in the development of lightning.It's been seen in volcanic eruptions,extremely intense forest fires, surface nuclear detonations, heavy snowstorms,and in large hurricanes. Lightning is not confined to thunderstorms.About 400 people survive lightning strokes in the U.S. About 10 percent of lightning-stroke victims are killed, and 70 percent suffer serious long-term effects. Injuries range from severe burns and permanent brain damage to memory loss and personality change. Lightning can kill people (3,696 deaths were recorded in the U.S.The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000. ![]() The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S.It is estimated that Earth as a whole is struck by an average of more than a hundred lightning bolts every second. Lightning detection systems in the United States monitor an average of 25 million strokes of lightning from clouds to ground during some 100,000 thunderstorms every year.The immense heat and other energy given off during a stroke has been found to convert elements into compounds that are found in organisms. Some scientists think that lightning may have played a part in the evolution of living organisms.The spark can reach over five miles (eight kilometers) in length, raise the temperature of the air by as much as 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (27,700 degrees Celsius), and contain a hundred million electrical volts. Lightning is a giant discharge of electricityaccompanied by a brilliant flash of light and a loud crack of thunder.Scroll down for the answers to these and other questions-and for tips and procedures to protect yourself and your property against one of nature's most lethal phenomena. Most people do not realize that they can be struck by lightning even when the center of a thunderstorm is 10 miles (16 kilometers) away and there are blue skies overhead.ĭid you know that rubber shoes do nothing to protect you from lightning? That talking on the telephone is the leading cause of lightning injuries inside the home? That standing under a tall tree is one of the most dangerous places to take shelter?Īnd what does it mean if your hair starts to stand on end during a thunderstorm? Lightning is one of the leading weather-related causes of death and injury in the United States. In the fashion of a summer monsoon unexpectedly overwhelming a clear afternoon, the work of James Sterling Pitt re-presents the romantic mental snapshots of a days activities with fervently abstracted proxies.Organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other partners, L ightning Safety Awareness Week is held the last full week of June each year. In congruence with this tradition, the title of the exhibition references the literal and conceptual “lightning flashes” that occur in neural activity and the formation of memory. The titles of the artist’s sculptures pay homage to the variety of encounters and perceptual shifts that occur within a calendared length of time - each individual work orchestrated as one line to a larger score. Often coming into being as a series of on-site field sketches, the personified images of sensory events gradually evolve from graphite and water color on paper to elaborately constructed wooden models. The artist’s hand-made re-productions allow recollection to uniquely manifest as tangible markers of a time and place. Pitt aims to make the ephemeral concrete with modestly sized, relational sculpture and drawings. Conceived to exist as an object based journal, the artist’s current body of works stand as two and three dimensional interpretations of fleeting sights and experiences. Eli Ridgway Gallery is pleased to present On a Clear Day We Were Lightning, new work by artist James Sterling Pitt.
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