92 Deaths from lightning jump in 2016

[geovalin]

Chhay Channyda

 

Lightning strikes have claimed 92 Cambodian lives so far this year, a significant jump from the 64 deaths that occurred between January and August last year, according to a government official.

 

Keo Vy, spokesman for National Committee for Disaster Management, said that through late August, 92 people have been killed by lightning and 99 others have been injured. Over the same period last year, 64 were killed and 58 were injured.

 

Eighty cows and buffalos have also been killed by lightning in 2016, and dozens of houses damaged, according to Vy.

 

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[MiKT]

They have jumped everywhere in the world as a consequence of global warming. 

 

In Thailand and surrounding countries (especially Klang Valley in Malaysia)  the average number of thunderstorm days per year is very high.

Bangkok being around 87, with a high concentration of lightning strikes (as shown on the Isokeraunic Map)

 

 

 

 

Current (no pun intended) best advice is to crouch down with both feet flat on the floor if you are unlucky enough to be caught in the open.

 

Don't lay down as this can increase the "step distance" . look it up.

 

 

Edited August 25, 2016 by MiKT