There’s one thing in regards to the immense energy of lightning that has fascinated cultures and other people all through the centuries.
How it behaves, the way it strikes by the sky and the pressure and injury that it could possibly carry.
If information studies are something to go by, it might be simple to assume that being struck by lightning solely occurs to golfers or seaside anglers.
My visitor as we speak is neither of these and shares her story of being struck by lightning whereas main an outside exercise on a college camp.
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Key episode takeaways
- Current recommendation primarily based on Australian Standard Lightning safety AS 1768:2021; Clause 6.4.2. is: all out of doors actions ought to cease as soon as thunder is heard, or within the occasion of climate monitoring gadgets, the storm is 15 kilometres away whatever the timing of the thunder and lightning.
- Understand the earlier recommendation of the 30:30 rule and the way that has modified
- If in a bunch, don’t keep collectively – unfold out
- Get down from excessive factors like ridges and knolls-be low on the panorama
- Don’t shelter in overhangs or caves
- Realise that ‘taking shelter’ means shelter from the lightning, not the rain
- Always verify forecasts
Links from this episode
Outdoors NSW & ACT – Lightning Advice
Bushwalking Victoria’s Bushwalking Manual.
Transcript
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Sponsor // Paddy Pallin
Rescued Podcast most important photograph // Ben Cirulis and fotografija.com.au