Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - Lightning weather

Lightning weather

Lightning is a spectacular and somewhat frightening discharge phenomenon accompanied by lightning and thunder. Lightning is usually produced in cumulonimbus clouds with strong convection, so it is often accompanied by strong gusts and heavy rains, and sometimes accompanied by hail and tornadoes.

Daily lightning protection

In addition to the protection of buildings and other fixed places, the protection of people is also very important. Daily lightning protection measures are as follows:

1. Stay indoors and close the doors and windows. People who work outdoors should hide in buildings.

2. TV, audio and other electrical appliances without lightning protection measures or insufficient lightning protection measures should not be used, and faucets should not be used.

3. Don't touch antennas, water pipes, barbed wire, metal doors and windows, external walls of buildings, and stay away from live equipment such as wires or other similar metal devices.

4. Reduce the use of telephones and mobile phones.

5. Don't swim or engage in other water sports or activities, and it is not suitable for outdoor ball games. In case of lightning, you should leave the water surface and other open places immediately to find shelter.

6. Don't stand on the top of the mountain, on the roof or near objects with high conductivity.

7. Don't handle flammable items in open containers.

8. When you can't hide in a building with lightning protection facilities in the wilderness, stay away from trees and masts.

9. It is not advisable to open an umbrella in the wild, nor to carry hoes, shovels, badminton rackets, golf clubs, etc. On your shoulder.

10, which is not suitable for entering temporary shacks, sentry boxes or low-rise buildings without lightning protection facilities.

1 1, not suitable for driving a motorcycle or riding a bike.