How To Avoid Being Hit By Lightning | James May's Things You Need To Know | Earth Science

James May tells us the best ways to avoid being hit by lightning. Taken from James May's Things You Need To Know.

[AndyFromBeaverton]

I just take my anti-lightening medicine before I go out into any storm. I have never been hit by lightening. What's funny is the same medicine also keeps elephants any rhinos away.

[daniel]

Misconception: water is a terrible conductor but the ions in the water are what conducts electricity

[MrRolnicek]

Or divide by 3 to get a reasonable unit of distance.

[catherinepatin]

Another danger to avoid during a lightening storm that was not mentioned, is using water from your tap or shower. Lightening can potentially run through the ground and therefore your pipes, which could electrocute you if the conditions are right.

[barkasmedia]

i can get lighting through my cellphone?
or should i just not use the 1850's hand-cranked magneto generator telephone in the hall?

[Fiddling_while_Rome_burns]

"Avoid water" you're in a rainstorm.

Or you can stay in the car, as Richard Hammond demonstrated.

[Hello-fcoi]

Animations used here to explain this topic is damn crazy...😎😎😎👽

[Snakeyes]

This hardly explained how to avoid lightning

[CoolDudeClem]

Isn't there some kind of lightning that travels for miles and miles through the sky before it finally strikes the ground? I'm sure I heard about that somewhere but now I'm beginning to think I dreamed it up because I cant find anything about it anywhere.

[sandwich]

When you say "Don't use the phone", you can nowdays, as long as it's wireless.

[Blkymtt]

This guy might be British but I trust him

[princepsionic]

No steel object, no water, stay indoors? What a delightful Guide! thanks!

[jaymes_exe]

Stay indoors and watch James may on YouTube

[Rickrolled]

Who did the animations for this episode?

[timinator]

How to avoid being hit by lightning :
Step 1: Avoid thunderstorm
Done

[zebrahandsafari]

Once I went to camp and we were all n door . And the one guy was standing in a puddle of water and the lightening struck him n he foot and t started to bleed. Note, it was a three story building and we were on the ground floor and we were indoor. That is why I'm scared of lightening up to the day. And that was many years ago.

[TheAviationEnthusiast]

Can I charge my phone if I stick it up the sky and lightning goes through it?

[supersaiyangod]

velcoity of sound x time interval between lightning and thunder = distance where the thunderstorm is taking place, right

[mistertornado]

It's also theorized that lightning gets its source from outer space - literally. The x-radiation detected in strikes along with the notion of "dark lightning" gives rise to this intriguing idea.