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Can you be struck by a bolt from the blue?

On a clear day with blue skies, lightning can jump outside of its parent cloud and travel for more than five miles through clear air. This is called the "bolt from the blue" phenomenon. The study of lightning is called keraunopathology.



This news arrived on: 11/02/2009
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Posted Comments:

11-05-2009 14:50
wrote:



It usually is refered to as "an act of God"



11-05-2009 08:28
Anon wrote:

Keraunopathology

Keraunopathology is ... the study of lightning-induced pathology or damage, or in other words it's the study of people struck by lightning.




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