Chinese weatherman struck by lightning while reporting live – IOTW Report

Chinese weatherman struck by lightning while reporting live

KFI: Sometimes your day doesn’t go like you would hope.

Then there are days you get hit by lightning while reporting on the storm.

A weather reporter made headlines in China after he was hit by lightening during his live shot. Xiao Dong was reporting a thunderstorm on a rooftop while holding a metal umbrella.

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21 Comments on Chinese weatherman struck by lightning while reporting live

  1. @grool
    Lightning may strike with a bolt like that in the background, but it also can be spread out over a larger area of lower voltage potential and not create a concentrated bolt like you saw behind him.
    “Lightning starts with short (30-50 m) spurts of static energy in a cloud. The lightning retreats back to its origin, refills the original channel, and branches at the end of the original channel to make a second generation of 30- to 50-m channels. Lightning continues with the retreats and new generations until the charge is either expended (intracloud lightning) or randomly works its way downward as a CG flash. [10]
    Any object near the intense electrical field of a thundercloud will have an opposite charge induced in it, be it a television tower, a tree, a person, or a blade of grass. Multiple upward leaders of current rise from these objects. Most do not contact the main lightning channel but may have sufficient energy to cause significant injury (Cooper upward streamer). Eventually, the downward leader may join one or more of the upward streamers to complete the lightning channel. At that point, a return stroke fills all of the branches and the lightning becomes visible. Lightning has more than one ground contact about 30-50% of the time.”
    http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/770642-overview

  2. A similar thing happened to my great uncle. He was walking from his garden to drop his tools into a shed as a storm approached. My Dad said he saw a halo form around him and an arc shoot upward from the hoe that was slung over his shoulder. It knocked him unconscious but didn’t kill him.

  3. Our US Weathermen often appear just as stupid. Why do they have to be out in the weather to tell us how bad a storm is?

    If they are that dumb, should I trust their forecast?

    Get inside, idiot.

    Sorry.i have headache.

  4. Lightning is scary stuff. I have been shocked
    when disconnecting my ham radio antenna from a
    near field strike.5 million volts at 18,000 amperes.
    Most of the energy is in the 1 megahertz range but
    rages from D.C. to 60 gigahertz.

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