About 10 percent of lightning strikes take place when there's no precipitation.

大约10%的雷击发生在没有降水的时候。

Despite that and the fact that fire helps prime the soil for the growth of new Sequoias, severe blazes like one that started with a lightning strike last year are still a threat.

尽管如此，而且大火烧过的土壤更有利于红杉树的生长，但雷击引发的大火仍然是一种威胁。

A Faraday suit can protect the lineman from electric shock, the same a Faraday cage, like a car, can protect passengers from lightning.

法拉第套装能保护线务员免受电击，同样的法拉第笼，就汽车一样，可以保护乘客不受雷击。

Here you'll come face to face with Namarrgon, The Lightning Man, who, every wet season, splits open the clouds with his axe, bringing thunder and new life to the country below.

在这里，您会亲眼见到闪电人纳玛刚，他会在每雨季，以斧头劈开云朵，为下方的大地带来雷击和生命。

The American whisky company Jim Beam says a lightning strike appears to have been the cause of a massive fire at one of its warehouses in Kentucky, which destroyed forty-five thousand barrels of bourbon.

美国威士忌公司金宾表示，雷击可能是导致其位于肯塔基州的一个仓库起火的原因，这场大火导致四万五千桶波旁威士忌被毁。

Experts at the website WeatherSTEM did the math, and say this adds up to about 8 million strikes per day, and 3 billion hits each year!

WeatherSTEM网站的专家做了计算，称累计起来闪电大约每天雷击地球表面800万，每雷击地球表面30亿！

Lightening strikes are responsible for igniting many wildfires.

雷击引发了许多山火。

Officials in South Florida say a lightning strike hurt three firefighters on Tuesday.

据南佛罗里达官方表示，三名消防员于周二遭雷击。

Some were struck by lightning right before my eyes!

有几条竟在我的眼皮底下被雷击死！

Hundreds of people die from getting struck by lightning each year.

每有数百人死于雷击。

Did you tell him I got struck by lightning?

你有没有跟他说我被雷击中了？

The lightning-sparked fire covered 13 square miles as of this morning.

这场大火由雷击引起，截至今天上午，过火面积达到13平方英里。

Well, more people are killed by lightning than by sharks.

嗯，死于雷击的人比死于鲨鱼袭击的人更多。

Weather data recorded about 45,000 lightning strikes in two hours' time.

气象数据显示，两小时内约有 4.5 万雷击。

The disaster is believed to have initially been caused by lightning strikes.

这场灾难被认为最初是由雷击引起的。

If lightning strikes, you don't want it to be on anything electrical.

如果（发生）雷击，你不希望它在任何电器上。

The second wave, the E2 pulse, is similar to the currents caused by nearby lightning strikes, being longer and much lower in amplitude than the E1 pulse.

第二种是E2波，它与附近雷击引起的电流相似，比E1脉冲更长，振幅更低。

Their most important practices were the use of augury, which was reading omens from birds and lightning strikes, and haruspicy, which was examining entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the liver, to divine future events.

他们最重要的实践是使用占卜术，即从鸟类和雷击中读取预兆，以及肝脏占卜，即检查祭祀动物的内脏，特别是肝脏，以预测未来的事件。

Cal Fire, the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says there have been roughly 12,000 lightning strikes in California since August 15th.

加州林务消防局称，自8月15日以来，加州地区已经遭受大约12，000雷击。

Now, for the first time, Gora and his colleagues were able to quantify the effects of lightning strikes in tropical forests around the world-thanks to satellite data and a network of ground sensors.

现在，得益于卫星数据和地面传感器网络，戈拉及其同事首能够量化全球热带森林中雷击的影响。