Can lightin strike twice in the same place?

Question

Can lightin strike twice in the same place?

Answer 1

Definitely, the Empire State building is struck about 100 times every year.

Answer 2

yes........anything can happen and this has happened on many occasions. As a matter of fact, lighten struck and burned my neighbor's house to the ground twice

Answer 3

More than twice in the same place.  When we were living in central Oregeon, at the edge of the National Forest, we found a few of the big Ponderosa pines with scars on the trunk right next to each other.  When I was a child, living in New York, a giant maple tree next to our house was felled the third time it was struck by lightning.  I am terrified of lighting as, back in Oregon during  storms, I sometimes saw "balls of lighting" which looked to be the size of bowling balls (I was 60  - 75 ft. away) - they were hovering around the tree trunks and were, about, 15 ft. from the ground.  One of these times, we had to evacuate because of a forest fire caused by lighting.  See link for tiny photo'.

Answer 4

From the National Severe Storm Laboratory:

-Lightning does hit the same spot (or almost the same spot) more than once, contrary to folk wisdom. It could be simply a statistical fluke (i.e., with all the lightning that occurs, eventually lightning will strike somewhere near a previous lightning strike within a short period of time). It could also be that something about the site makes it somewhat more likely to be struck. Typically, when lightning strikes something on the ground, the object that is struck sends a faint channel upward that joins the downward developing flash and creates the connection to the ground. Taller objects are more likely than shorter objects to produce the upward channel. But it is also possible that something that locally affects the ability of the ground to conduct electricity (such as the salt or moisture content of the ground at the time, the presence or absence of rock, standing water, pipes or other metal objects in the ground), the terrain shape, the shape of leaves or twigs, or something else might make a particular location more likely than another nearby location to be struck.

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/lightnin...

Answer 5

si senor

Answer 6

it does, in fact it often does, the air pressure and electric charge often induce multiple strikes in one spot, sometimes on a hill it strikes once every couple of storms, just geography and weather patterns of the area.

Answer 7

Absolutely.  It is an old wives tale that lightning cannot strike the same place twice.   During a thunderstorm the atmosphere is highly ionized and creates positive and negative properties between clouds, cloud to ground and from clouds to clear air.   Lightning can even happen in positively charged area that area free of visible clould cover.

Answer 8

yeah i think so

Answer 9

It does. The Empire State Building has been hit multiple times in one storm.