About 242 million lightning flashes were recorded during 2023 in the U.S., according to a recent report by Vaisala Xweather, which tracks each stroke of lightning. That's the most in at least the ...

This Chapter is concerned with the mathematical modelling of return strokes. From the point of view of an electrical engineer, the return stroke is the most important event in a lightning flash; it is ...

When the output voltage of the electronic circuit exceeds a threshold a counter is triggered. In order to avoid multiple counts due to subsequent strokes the trigger circuit has a dead time of about ...

Credit: Felix Mittermeier/Unsplash Although the likelihood of a human being hit by lightning is relatively rare, the chance that a stroke of lightning will strike the earth is anything but.