Last March, four farmers, working in Bustan in a residential complex in the Gurgown suburb near the Indian capital, Delhi, under a tree during heavy rains.
There were no minutes until an orange flash occurred, the light of the tree was followed by thunder, and the four men fell to the ground, and one of them died and the others survived, but burns.
Lightning usually continues for less than a second.The model flash is measured by about 300 million volts and 30 thousand amps, which is enough to cause the killing of a person, and it can cause the air surrounding temperature to rise to severe temperatures..
One of the survivors told a local newspaper: "I do not remember what happened to me and how this happened, within seconds, everything was destroyed.".
His deceased colleague was one of more than 2,500 Indians losing their lives due to lightning every year.Lightning thunderbolts caused the death of more than 100,000 people in the country between 1967 and 2019, according to official data, and this is more than three deaths caused by normal dangers during this period, and survivors may be forced to coexist with symptoms such as weakness, dizziness and memory loss.
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The Meteorological Office in India started three years ago that tracks lightning, as well as applications on mobile phones currently tracking flashing, people are also being alerted through radio and television and volunteers use loudspeakers to educate people.
The initiative bearing the "campaign to adapt to lightning in India", a three -year -old initiative, aims to raise awareness in the villages exposed to lights and reduce deaths in them.
However, the number of thunderbolts also recorded a sharp increase, and India witnessed the registration of more than 18 million thunderbolt between April 2020 and March 2021, according to a study conducted by the Flexible Climate Control Systems Council, which is a non -profit council.
This represents an increase of 34 percent compared to the same period during the previous year, and the satellite data collected by the Indian Equipment Institute also shows that the thunderbolts were "rapidly increased" between 1995 and 2014.
Although six Indian states registered a greater number in terms of lightnings..
Farms workers are more vulnerable to thunderbolts.
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"Many lights occur in our region.I still remember the killing of a seven -year -old boy when he went out during a storm to attend a buffalo.Now we are just trying to stay at home..
Others live in a populated fishing village in Frasergang on the border with the Bay of Bengal, which is 120 km south of the state capital, Kalaka, and it is the center of lightning, which causes the death of about 60 people annually in the area where its village is located.
In the coastal villages there are landscapes of the earth and water: farms, pools and homes with tin and straw roofs, and living next to the sea may be fraught with dangers: hurricanes and tidal rush are common there, and lightning is likely to occur over land, but water is often affected off the coast.
The thunderbolts are primarily the electric shipments that are mostly caused by a defect within the stormy clouds, so the villagers helped raise awareness and reduce the deaths caused by lightning here by making electrical conductors of homemade lightning and inexpensive to direct electrical charges to the ground.
The people of the village, to make these conductors, use used bikes and bamboo columns, and the frame is placed on top of a bamboo column, sometimes up to 30 feet, which is fixed to buildings, especially community centers and local schools, and they make sure that Mosul generates electricity and moves to the groundWithout causing any harm.
Studies conducted by the campaign "Adaptation to Lightning in India" says that the vast majority of lightning victims in India live in the villages, and they die after shelter under high trees, as well as tribal members who work in agriculture and fishing face a particularly dangerous, and the campaign succeeded in reducing deathsBecause of the 60 percent thunderbolts in some states.
"There is a lack of safety awareness campaigns that society leads by state governments to reach people who are really at risk in lightning centers such as farms, forests, sea, coasts, ponds, lakes and rivers," says Sanjay Srivastava, the campaign organizer..
Scientists say that the threat caused by climate change leads to an increase in lightning activity, as it leads to high temperatures of the surface of the earth and the sea, heating the air above and providing more energy to push thunderstorms that lead to lightning occurrence.
A study conducted by scientists at the University of California concluded that thunderbolts in the United States can increase 12 percent per degree of high temperature..
In India, the increased urban expansion and the loss of tree cover led to a high temperature.
"The heat is above the ground, moisture over water and atmosphere due to the air pollution, all of which create favorable conditions for thunderstorms that stimulate lightning activity," says SD Bawar, director of the Dynamics of Thunderstorms at the Indian Institute of Tropical areas..
"With the increase in temperatures in India and the increase in pollution, thunderstorms increase.".
He says that the intensity of lightning is the increase, and scientists recently confirmed the occurrence of a thunderbolt of approximately 500 miles..
India aims to reduce deaths due to lightnings to less than 1,200 deaths annually by 2022.
Volunteers also organize awareness camps and ask the people in remote villages to stay in their homes and avoid running in open fields to bring livestock during storms, as well as not gather under trees and stay away from electricity lines and metal fences.
