Can Ball Lightning Kill You
The ball lightning is the white dot at the far left and its spectrum is the slightly.
Can ball lightning kill you. At least four people were killed and around 60 injured when lightning struck the a church during service and ball lightning burst through the window and fell among the parishioners. Pictured is the spectrum of a cloud to ground lightning strike and of the ball lightning it generated. But then suddenly you see a bright glowing ball of light pass through a wall without leaving a mark. The odds of being struck may be slim but it s better not to be that one statistic.
Or maybe it destroys the whole damn wall. Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon described as luminescent spherical objects that vary from pea sized to several meters in diameter though usually associated with thunderstorms the phenomenon is said to last considerably longer than the split second flash of a lightning bolt. In fact approximately 90 percent of those lightning hits survive but often with long lasting neurological damage says dr. Welcome to the completely baffling phenomenon known as ball lightning which thankfully is not simply the name for regular lightning that happens to strike your balls sadly there is no name for that.
First lightning injures more people than it kills. But even as our population has tripled these deaths have become vanishingly rare largely thanks to advances in city. Your total poison damage from ball lightning should be around 160 5 3 2400 poison dps with 100 chance to poison. And sometimes you don t even need to be touching something to get struck as the new york man can attest to.
You can reach a cast time of around 0 30 cast per second. As late as the 1940s lightning used to kill hundreds of americans every year. Most of your global damage probably come from your lightning damage. Whether you re indoors or outdoors being struck by lightning is serious business.
Herald of thunder and storm cascade poison damage is interesting but they are not cast often and can t really make a difference.