Nitrogen, which is created by the heat of the flash, helps renew the soil and nurture life. Forests depend on lightening to cause fires in order to clear away dead trees and shrubs, so new vegetation can grow. It is also beneficial to us for agriculture. Lightning works with nitrogen in the air to produce a fertilizer. The area around a stroke is heated, which combines nitrogen and oxygen molecules into nitrous oxide.
Nitrous oxide is a water-soluble chemical that plants use as food.
This fertilizer is delivered to the ground through the rain. In parts of the world the fertilizer delivered to the soil by heavy thunderstorm activity can be comparable to five pounds per acre. If your hair begins to stand up and you get a tingling sensation throughout your body during a thunderstorm the best thing to do is squat down on your hands and knees, keeping your head and heart off the ground. Hopefully, when this is done, your limbs will take the shock, and not your torso. Lightning bolts cannot be predicted, and it is impossible to determine what path it will take, but it is possible to avoid it.