{"id":106647,"date":"2017-12-29T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T09:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/?p=106647"},"modified":"2025-04-03T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:50:58","slug":"what-are-dry-lightning-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/what-are-dry-lightning-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"What are dry lightning strikes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed that cloud-to-ground lightning is vertical, but, according to worldwide research, this lightning can travel horizontally 10, 15, 20 km and even more, resulting in a lightning strike without a previous storm, with a clear sky. The conditions for a dry lightning strike are those of any thunderstorm, the interaction between particles with different charges.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2013, a security camera at the Rionegro airport in Antioquia, Colombia, recorded a dry lightning strike on an aircraft while it was parked.<\/p>\n<p>In another case, just a few days ago, more than 70 soldiers were affected by this phenomenon. This happened when suddenly and without the threat of rain, lightning struck in the middle of the platoon.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, if a thunderstorm is visible in the distance, <a href=\"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/en\/what-not-to-do-in-case-of-thunderstorm\/\">experts recommend<\/a> suspending all outdoor activities.BACK TO NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed that cloud-to-ground lightning is vertical, but, according to worldwide research, this lightning can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning-protection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113622,"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106647\/revisions\/113622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiditecsystems.com\/srv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}