ever second of every day, the world are mere than too lightning bolts at's about ten million lightning Lightning amazes us, but it can also frighten us. We have goodYeason be afraid of lightning. Every year, about 100 people the United rates and Canada die from lightning, in injured. It strange that and another 300 men. of all the people who die from lightning, 84 percent are g,000 Lightning is the main cause of forest fires; it starts more than each year. Lightning is electricity inside a cloud. Scientists do not know exactly what makes this electricity. But they know that the electricity inside cloud con be as much as 100 million vol From this extremely strong electricity, a lightning like a streak of bright light, comes down from the sky. Its temperature can reach 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit within a few millionths of a second. That's almost five times the temperature on the sun's surface. The lightning bolt is very quick. It can move at a speed of 87,000 miles per second. A rocket traveling at this speed would reach the moon in 2.5 seconds. With the lightning bolt, we usually hear thunder, which is the sound of hot air exploding Lightning and thunder happen at exactly the same time, but lightning first because Night travels a million times faster than sound. Lightning often stffkes tall buildings. However, many buildings have lightning rods to protect them from lightning. When lightning strikes, the electricity goes safely down the metal rod the ground. Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman, invented in 1760. That is why buildings like the State Building twelve City are safe. Lightning may hit this building as many as times in twenty minutes and as often as 500 times a year. Airplanes not as easy to protect as and accidents do happen. In 1963 boeing 707 jet was hit by lightning and crashed. Eighty-one people died. coming, here are some things you you see thunder and lightning into car, or unde an do to protect yourself Go inside a house, get bridge. If you cannot find shelter, go to the lowest point on the