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NWS: Lightning a danger to outdoor athletes
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Lightning Safety and Outdoor Activities
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Outdoor Lightning Safety
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Lightning Safety at Athletic Events
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Lightning Safety
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Lightning is the most dangerous and frequently encountered weather hazard that physically active people face each year. According to Orville and Huffines research (2001), there are approximately 25 million cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in the United States each year, resulting in nearly 100 deaths and an additional 500 injuries.For organized outdoor activities, the National Weather Service recommends that organizers have a lightning safety plan and follow it without exception.
The plan should give clear and specific safety guidelines to eliminate errors in judgment. These guidelines should address the following questions. When should activities be stopped?
Lightning: Information for Organized Sporting Events. Lightning is the most frequent weather hazard affecting athletic events, such as baseball, football, swimming, skiing, track and field, soccer, and lacrosse. Lightning can strike and injure both players and spectators in outdoor stadiums during an organized sporting event.The following steps are suggested: 1. A responsible person should be designated to monitor weather conditions.
Local weather forecasts from The Weather 2. Suspension and resumption of athletic activities should be planned in advance. Understanding of SAFE lightning 3. UNSAFE LIGHTNING.Lightning Detection System For Sports Fields.
The first component of an effective lightning detection system for outdoor sports safety is a lightning detection system. A lightning detection system for sports fi elds is a great way to ensure that coaches and officials know what weather conditions are forecast for the day’s outdoor activities.Lightning strikes can cause death or permanent disability. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), more than 400 people in the United States are struck by lightning each year, resulting in an average of 49 deaths. The NWS reported that 17% of lightning deaths between 2006 and 2013 occurred during outdoor sports or recreational activities.
In order to reduce the risk of lightning-related casualties, it is important to ensure that athletes, coaches and event administrators are appropriately educated regarding best practices for lightning safety. A typical lightning strike may be anywhere from 20 million to 1 billion volts with an approximate temperature of 8,000Β°C. Lightning deaths and injuries from direct lightning strikes are rare, and injuries are most.The best defense is to avoid lightning. Here are some outdoor safety tips that can help you avoid being struck: Do.
Be aware Check the weather forecast before participating in outdoor activities. If the forecast calls for thunderstorms, postpone your trip or activity, or make sure adequate safe shelter is readily available.Lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Although most lightning occurs in the summer, people can be struck at any time of year.
Lightning kills 20 or more people in the United States each year, and hundreds more are severely.The structure must have a complete lightning protection system, and be properly grounded and bonded. “If the electric wiring/grounding in your facility is up to the required code, no indoor area should close during outdoor thunderstorm activity,” says Dr. Vicki Weiss, a regular lap swimmer in Maryland.Lightning is a widespread danger to the physically active population, in part because of the prevalence of afternoon to early evening thunderstorms from late spring to early fall and a societal trend toward outdoor physical activities during those times.4,12β14Certain areas of the United States have greater thunderstorm activity than others; coupled with larger populations, exposure to this threat is often.With large numbers of people engaging in outdoor sport, the risk of encountering a weather hazard intensifies.
Though lightning casualties have trended downward over the last 10 years (NOAA.gov), in part thanks to improved lightning detection technology, lightning fatalities in sport still occur.Read More > about Lightning Safety Sports Fandom and the NCAA Student-Athlete They come in all shapes and sizes, from the little tyke who is dressed in the University of Kentucky outfit coming home from the hospital days after birth; to the twenty-year-old walking around in.Maryland Soccerplex relies on lightning and severe weather alerting system to keep athletes safe.Lightning Safety Specialist John Jensenius gives lightning safety tips for outdoor activities.
The National Lightning Safety Council was established to promote lightning safety education and.
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Good summary. I was riding a bike home on a trail one day, clear skies, but thunderstorms a few miles to either side of me. I felt my scalp tingling and (being ignorant at the time) wondered what was going on. BANG, a bolt broke above me. I don’t know where it hit. I felt nothing, but it really scared me. I found out later that the charge I’d felt meant I was really in the danger zone. There were tall metal electrical towers along the trail, so I imagine it hit one of those. I’m not sure I’d have had time to get in a crouch even if I’d known what was going on. It happened within seconds.
I was alright with the storm. Until it cut the dang wifi that’s where I started raging pretty sure my crush was about to ask me out too smh
you don’t get under any trees Big or small ANYWAYS YOU’LL GET STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
They said that cars is safe place because of the wheels (rubber)
The only reason I’m here is because I sleep next to a big window R.I.P
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would the attitude masks help train your body for a hiking trip?
This is surprisingly helpful for an adult who has forgotten about these things mostly. Thanks!
Very informative!! Even perfectly understandable for an non English native!! Keep going Dave! Thumps up!
I love the idea of hiking during a storm! Am I the only one? Should I really have to worry about getting struck by lightning?
I have to say, you are a far better actor than 90% of the reenactment actors on TV. I particularly liked your ‘spinal damage’ finger twitching from the first aid vid and I was totally sold by your elevation fatigue:)
Really appreciate these videos. After being off the trails for way too many years but planning to get back out there this summer, they are a GREAT brush up! Thanks!
Another tip for the lightning cover position is the touch your heels together so if ever you get a shock from a near hit (few feet away), the current won’t go through your heart. If there is a contact low to the ground it will take the easiest route.
Edit: typo
Great video; I’ve just subscribed to your channel.
I’m always amazed when I’m coming down the trail from a high ridge or summit by noon, with clouds already building above me I’ve seen a mere wisp of water vapor turn to a full-on storm in less than 30 minutes while others are on their way up, oblivious to the gathering clouds. I once told a meteorologist friend that I’m so careful about lightning above treeline, it probably constituted a full-on phobia. His reply was that lightning is so dangerous above treeline, there’s no way to be phobic about it, lol.
Is it fine to keep mobile phones or any electronic devices on charge?
Is a lightening storm what happens when I heft my pack and start pitching stuff because it’s too heavy? π Great video.
What advice would you give in this situation? It’s 2 in the morning you’re snug in sleeping bag, fast asleep, at tree line when a nasty storm rolls in dumping rain & hail. Then the thunder & lightening start to roll in and you notice the static electricity causing your hairs to stand up. What do you do? Stay in your sleeping bag and curl into fetal position and pray? Please advise…
Some nice tips here. Β Thanks for taking the time to walk us through these.
I think you mean lightning and not lightening (the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity)? π
THERE IS A LIGHTNING AT MY TOWN ITS RAINING SOOOO BAD AND THE LIGHTNING WAS BY MY HOUSE AHHHHHH
Damn British people being scared of lightning. Here in America we walk around during tornadoes and lightning.
Hey Dave, great video and scenery! There was a movie made back in 2000 called “Vertical Limit” about climbers on K2 getting trapped and having to deal with altitude sickness. One of my favorites; check it out if you haven’t seen it.
”the mountains will aways be there but you might not”:D:D
What about tornados and your out in the middle of nowhere? I never could understand the logic of jumping in a ditch when the ditches majorly flood during a severe storm, not to mention lightning and hail! Curious though, where do the wild animals all go during storms? Great video Dave!
Idk why but im not afraid of tornadoes or storms, as i have been in one before, i hate lightning
Thanks Dave your videos are awesome I’m starting too hike more it’s amazing and fun I’m loving it thank you. All I need too know is what pants are light too wear not heavy pants please help thanks Dave.
What if you charge you phone during a thunderstorm should you be worried?
Like watching the videos! And all the good tips! Keep on keepin on!
Those are MYTHSSS go see http://www.thorntonweather.com/education/lightning.php please
Who else was watching this on a charging device and quickly unplugged
I have asthma, so I am at high risk of altitude sickness. So say I am at 2,000 feet, and I want to go up to 8,000 feet. But if I get asthma at 4,500 feet, I have to stop and try to go up very gradually to say, 4,525 feet. If I get more severe asthma after 4,525 feet, this is the danger zone for me, and I realize I could get deadly edema in the lungs and the only way to prevent death is to descend because if I go up even further, it will be something that I will regret doing all the way to my own grave.
What happens when your tent uses your hiking poles…pretty much two lightening rods.
Another great video. I never even would of thought about elevation sickness. Good to know
Hello Dave, thank you for sharing the great pointers regarding lighting and high elevation hiking. Take care and be safe out there.
Another excellent clip. I pretty much only hike at elevation and have always been fascinated how elevation sickness impacts some and not others. Seems to have nothing to do with the kind of shape your in either. Luck of the draw I guess.
Thanks for another great video Dave. These videos have been some of the best for me when going ultralight and learning trail safety, keep them coming:)
u should keep u legs together not like that what it shows in the picture
Lightning is electricity once i charged my tab it was 100 percent sure battery precentage.
I did something stupid once…I played my laptop during a lightning storm and it was plugged in, so I got a small jolt of it through my laptop, needless to say, I learned my lesson the hard way…