Aman Zutshi
Over 30 goats killed and more than dozen sheep were hurt in Mananu area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district in an overnight lightning incident.
According to the report, the incident took place around 3am in the early hours when dozens of goats, sheep took refuge from heavy rain under a Mango tree and suddenly due to lightning strike 30 goats died on the spot at Palth village in Mananu block in Samba district.
The lightning strike instantaneously killed 30 goats and wounded 15 sheep there belonging to two ST families of the village.
Due to inclement weather the incessant rains are causing much damage to the property, people and live in Jammu and Kashmir these days.
The Schedule Tribe (ST) community who has suffered loss worth lakhs have appealed Samba administration to provide them immediate compensation to run their households.
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which the electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning. A less common type of strike, ground-to-cloud (GC) lightning, is upward-propagating lightning initiated from a tall grounded object and reaching into the clouds. About 25% of all lightning events worldwide are strikes between the atmosphere and earth-bound objects. Most are intracloud (IC) lightning and cloud-to-cloud (CC), where discharges only occur high in the atmosphere. Lightning strikes the average commercial aircraft at least once a year, but modern engineering and design means this is rarely a problem. The movement of aircraft through clouds can even cause lightning strikes.
A single lightning event is a “flash”, which is a complex, multistage process, some parts of which are not fully understood. Most CG flashes only “strike” one physical location, referred to as a “termination”. The primary conducting channel, the bright, coursing light that may be seen and is called a “strike”, is only about one inch (ca. 2.5 cm) in diameter, but because of its extreme brilliance, it often looks much larger to the human eye and in photographs. Lightning discharges are typically miles long, but certain types of horizontal dischar
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