Daily Mail reported that a strange phenomenon occurred in the suburbs of Tampa, California, USA, when lightning hit a residential area, hitting a palm tree, despite the clear sky and clouds, there were no signs of thunderstorms.
A journey camera in the car of Johnathan Moore, a resident working nearby, fully recorded this rare horrifying moment. Johnathan Moore said that while he was working there about 22 meters away, lightning suddenly fell through the tree to shine brightly. The horror scene happened so quickly, in just 1 second.
Meteorologists explain that the phenomenon of "hitting in the open sky" is extremely rare and extremely dangerous. In this case, lightning is formed from a thunderstorm cloud from a very far away, people cannot see it, so at the place where the lightning hits, the sky is completely clear or with few clouds. Because the travel distance of lightning is very long, its pressure is also 6-10 times higher as well as traveling far and 10 times longer than normal lightning.
NBC News quoted a source from the US National Weather Service as saying that the central Florida peninsula has the highest lightning density in the US. The peak thunder season here is between May and October, from midday to midnight.
In 2019, 27 people died from lightning strikes in the US and 243 others were injured, according to data from the US National Weather Service. Since the beginning of 2020, 12 people have died from lightning strikes in the US.
