When you hear thunder, immediately move to safe shelter: a substantial building with electricity or plumbing or an enclosed, metal-topped vehicle with windows up. Stay in safe shelter at least 30 minutes after you hear the last sound of thunder.
Indoor Lightning Safety Stay off corded phones, computers and other electrical equipment that put you in direct contact with electricity. Avoid plumbing, including sinks, baths and faucets. Then judge if it is safe by your own subjective measures of safety. I hope you follow advice this sensical even before verifying it.
I don't now the probabilities for it happening though. Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Metal frame windows and doors are good electrical conductors, but even glass can conduct lightning. Lightning strikes on the building or debris from nearby strikes can shatter glass in windows and doors causing flying glass. Lightning is often accompanied by other extreme weather including high winds and hail which can damage windows and doors.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Colin Pickard Colin Pickard 1, 20 20 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. The problem is that it just says what could happen, but not how likely it is to happen.
Nothing is safe if you only consider what could happen; things are safe when dangerous things are unlikely. Am I more likely to be killed or injured by gazing through a window at a thunderstorm than driving a car while using a phone?
Gabe The question that was asked wasn't "How likely is this to happen? I'd suggest you open your own question. You're more likely to get an answer that way. MiniRagnarok: If you interpret every "is it safe to do X" question to mean "is it impossible to be killed or injured while doing X" then the answer will always be "no", so the only reasonable interpretation is "will I be less likely to be killed or injured doing X than other everyday activities". If I am more likely to be injured from walking away from the window due to a heart attack or falling than from a possible lightning strike, then it's actually safer to stand there than to move away.
The question is " Is there any scientific basis for that idea of being hit by lightning when staying close to doors or windows? There is a scientific basis for the idea; whether it is statistically useful advice belongs in a separate question possibly on statistics SE?
ColinPickard: The OP is trying to figure out if their cultural belief about standing near windows during thunderstorms has any basis in fact. It makes far more sense to me to answer based on how likely it is to be injured rather than how it happens how lightning goes through windows is more of a physics question.
In many cases it appears that tempered glass must be used to comply with current US building codes. Yes thunder can be dangerous, but it depends how close you are to it. Be careful to distinguish thunder from lightning, which are related but different. Lightening is the actual electrical discharge, and is dangerous because you can be electrocuted. Thunder is just the sound from to lightning, and so it could only hurt your ears if it is very loud which is pretty unlikely.
This is most likely to occur from a positive C-G strike since it contains up to amperes which in return creates the loudest of thunder.
Also thunder from these strikes have popped nails from wood and even crack windows. You close doors and windows to prevent debris from entering the house. Close all windows that i opened before. Just refresh. Then restart. It means your too close to the lightning!
Things not to do in a tornado:Go outside unless you have to to reach your storm cellar. Attempt to flee your neighborhood in a vehicle. Seek shelter under a bridge. Take time to open or close windows. Log in. Thunderstorms and Lightning.
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