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- On Monday at least 322 reindeer were killed by lightning in Norway.
- 100's dead from lightning strikes in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka this summer
- In June more than a 100 people were struck in Europe.
- In July a new world record was recorded as ten thousand lightning flashes lit up Hong Kong's night sky over one weekend
In seconds, the storm wiped out about a third of the herd in Hallsville, Texas.
Their owner, Ashley Anderson, said she and her husband had never seen anything like it, and called it a freak incident.
Deadly lightning strikes is a phenomena which is on the increase due to climate change, on Monday at least 322 wild reindeer were killed by lightning in Norway.
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Lightning strikes on a 12 to 24% increase: Phenomenon appears to be worsening with climate change
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Lightning strikes are expected to increase by 12 percent for every degree Celsius of warming
A 50 percent rise in lightning expected by the end of the century.
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DHAKA, June 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bangladesh has seen a near-record number of deaths this year from a phenomenon that appears to be worsening with climate change: lightning strikes.
So far this year, 261 people have died from lightning in the country, putting the South Asian nation on track to beat last year’s 265 deaths.
Most lightning deaths usually occur during the warm months of March to July.
India has seen a similar surge in lightning deaths, with 93 people killed just in the past two days, officials said.
The problem has prompted Bangladesh’s government to add lightning strikes to the country’s list of official types of disasters, which includes floods, cyclones and storm surges, earthquakes, drought and riverbank erosion, among others.
As a result, the government now compensates lightning strike victims or their families with sums between 7,500 and 25,000 taka ($95 to $310).
Through mid-May the government had paid 1.5 million taka ($18,400) in claims this year to families of 81 people who died because of lightning reports floodlist.com.
More Heat, More Rain
Scientists say warmer conditions associated with climate change are causing more water evaporation from the land and ocean, increasing clouds and rainfall and the potential for lightning storms.
“The months of April, May and June are the hottest in Bangladesh and the moist air quickly rises upward to meet with dry north-westerly winds to cool and form large storm clouds,” Dipen Bhattacharya, a physics and astronomy professor at Moreno Valley College in California, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“Some specialists think that as the world warms up, we should expect more explosive lightning events rather than a gradual increase,” he said.
During the three-day period of May 12 to May 14, 67 people died from lightning strikes in Bangladesh.
Altogether, 132 people died in May after being hit by lightning, according to the Foundation for Disaster Forum, a Dhaka-based disaster preparedness network.
Altogether, 1,476 people have died from lightning in Bangladesh since 2010, Bangladesh Meteorological Department data shows.
According to a 2014 University of Berkeley study, lightning strikes are expected to increase by 12 percent for every degree Celsius of warming, with a 50 percent rise in lightning expected by the end of the century.
According to Bangladesh’s Met Office, prior to 1981, the country saw lightning strikes on average nine days each May. Since that time, the country has seen strikes an average of 12 days each May.
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