Lightning safety | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 05/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_strike


00:01:54 1 Strikes
00:04:18 2 Injuries
00:06:38 3 Epidemiology
00:08:25 4 Effect on nature
00:08:34 4.1 Impact on vegetation
00:09:35 4.2 Shattering of rocks
00:10:08 5 Electrical and structural damage
00:11:08 6 Prevention and mitigations
00:12:47 6.1 Lightning protection systems
00:14:36 6.2 Monitoring and warning systems
00:17:04 6.3 Personal safety
00:20:25 7 Notable incidents
00:21:56 7.1 Earth-bound
00:25:36 7.2 In-flight
00:28:25 7.3 Most-stricken human
00:28:45 8 See also



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:
https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91
Other Wikipedia audio articles at:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts
Upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts
Speaking Rate: 0.7993567502725297
Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-B


"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates


SUMMARY
=======
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is an electric discharge between the atmosphere and an object. They mostly originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud to ground (CG) lightning.  A less common type of strike, called ground to cloud (GC), is upward propagating lightning initiated from a tall grounded object and reaches into the clouds. About 25% of all lightning events worldwide are strikes between the atmosphere and earth-bound objects. The bulk of lightning events are intra-cloud (IC) or cloud to cloud (CC), where discharges only occur high in the atmosphere. Lightning strikes the average commercial aircraft at least once a year, but modern engineering and design means this is rarely a problem. The movement of aircraft through clouds can even cause lightning strikes.A single lightning event is a "flash", which is a complex, multi-stage process, some parts of which are not fully understood.  Most cloud to ground flashes only "strike" one physical location, referred to as a "termination".  The primary conducting channel, the bright coursing light that may be seen and is called a "strike", is only about one inch in diameter, but because of its extreme brilliance, it often looks much larger to the human eye and in photographs.  Lightning discharges are typically miles long, but certain types of horizontal discharges can be upwards of tens of miles in length.  The entire flash lasts only a fraction of a second. Most of the early formative and propagation stages are much dimmer and not visible to the human eye.