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Important safety tips to protect yourself from lightning

Indoor Safety Tips: Even though your home is a safe shelter during a lightning storm, you might still be at risk. About one-third of lightning-strike injuries occur indoors. Here are some tips to keep

Indoor Safety Tips: Even though your home is a safe shelter during a lightning storm, you might still be at risk. About one-third of lightning-strike injuries occur indoors. Here are some tips to keep safe and reduce your risk of being struck by lightning while indoors.

Outdoor Safety Tips: Although no place outside is safe during a thunderstorm, you can minimize your risk by assessing the lightning threat early and taking appropriate actions. The best defense is to avoid lightning. Here are some outdoor safety tips that can help you avoid being struck.

And thanks to information posted by Shea Gibson, a Charleston-based meteorologist, there is now a FREE LIGHTNING TOOL: NASA’s Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (aka SPoRT) has released a new, interactive tool to help you track—and just maybe—predict lightning. The map view is available at https://weather.ndc.nasa.gov/ sport/lightning-viewer/. It not only shows you where lightning is happening, but how long since the last lightning strike. This tool will let you know when that 30-minute window has elapsed.

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Sources: https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning;

https://www.ready.gov/thunderstorms-lightning;

https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html;

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Indoor Safety Tips: Avoid water.Don’t touch electronic equipment.Avoid windows, doors, porches, and concrete.Don’t use corded phones.Outdoor Safety Tips: Be aware.Go indoors.“When thunder roars, go indoors.”Seek shelter immediately, even if caught out in the open.Never lie flat on the groundNever shelter under an isolated treeNever use a cliff or rocky overhang for shelterImmediately get out of and awayfrom waterStay away from objects that conduct electricitySeparate from others.If you are out in the open water and a storm rolls in, return to shore immediately.Don’t stay in open vehicles.Don’t stay in open structures.Avoid open spaces.Don’t stay near tall structures.And thanks to information posted by Shea Gibson, a Charleston-based meteorologistFREE LIGHTNING TOOLSPoRTSources: