During the Qingming Festival holiday, a number of Xiaohongshu bloggers in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, posted that someone was injured by a lightning strike when they passed through a forest on the way to climb Lion's Head Mountain in the afternoon. The upstream news reporter saw from the video provided by netizen Mr. Chen (pseudonym) that there was a forest on the climbing road, many large trees were split, and a woman was lying on the ground.
According to Mr. Chen, the first lightning strike happened to be not far from him. Yesterday (April 5) was the Qingming Festival, and there were still a lot of tourists climbing the heights, and it was drizzling. A few of them were walking on the hillside, when suddenly a huge explosion came from behind them, their ears were buzzing, and their arms were instantly numb. Suddenly they felt a huge shock wave, and at that time, everyone didn't realize what the explosion was, so they all rushed down the mountain, only to realize later that it might be a lightning strike. Not long after, he heard a loud bang behind him. Soon after arriving at the side of the road down the mountain, he saw ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks coming. "I thought there might have been a mountaineer who was struck by lightning, but later I looked at the media reports and found that one person was injured by lightning. ”
The trees around the injured woman appeared to be split.
After the incident, a local staff member said: "The lightning strike is true, and it is inconvenient to disclose other circumstances." Another local police officer said that after the incident, the local police, the lion's head police station and the fire department all arrived at the scene to deal with it. At present, the injured have been taken to the hospital for treatment and are not in danger of life.
The incident attracted attention on the Xiaohongshu platform, and some netizens said, "This is terrible", "Oh my God, can this be human?", and some netizens said that they were climbing the mountain, "I'm so scared, I don't dare to go up now", "I just went to climb a mountain with my friend today, I encountered a thunderstorm, and suddenly there was a thunderstorm halfway up, and we were all frightened, and then continued to climb up, and there was a very close thunder that scared my friend halfway"
In this regard, Mr. Zhang, a veteran of meteorological research in Chongqing, said: "When the thunder and lightning clouds come, a large amount of electric charges accumulate on the ground and in the clouds, and the energy will be released when the charges meet. The essence of lightning is electric current, and the commanding heights provide an upward channel for the charge, which is easy to produce lightning, and climbers should stay away from the commanding heights. For example, if you notice a cloud of thunder and lightning approaching during the climb, do not stay in the summit area and stay away from the summit area as soon as possible. Mountaineering enthusiasts should not think that the commanding height is the top of the mountain, 'high' is relative, and the big tree is also a relative commanding height, and at the bottom of the tree or near the trunk of the tree, it is very vulnerable to lightning strikes. Hiding under unprotected pavilions is also easy to be struck by lightning. Therefore, the most effective way to climb the mountain to avoid lightning damage is to pay attention to the latest weather conditions before setting off, and avoid thunder and lightning weather when climbing, and it is best to choose sunny weather to climb the mountain. ”