Lightening

It is the process of occurrence of a natural ‘electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground  or within a cloud’, accompanied by a bright flash and sound, and sometimes thunderstorms.

Inter cloud or intra cloud (IC) lightning which are visible and are harmless.

It is cloud to ground (CG) lightning, which is harmful as the ‘high electric voltage and electric current’ leads to electrocution.


Indian Scenario:

State specific disaster.

Every lightning strikes around a fixed period and almost similar geographical locations in similar patterns.

Compensation to victims of natural disaster is 4 Lakh from 2015 by Center.

Lightning strikes originate from Chotanagpur Plateau – the confluence of Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand—and extended to Bangladesh to Patkai plateau of Meghalaya affecting other North eastern states.

Although forecasts and warnings are made available through mobile text messages, it is not available in all regions.

How to prevent Life Loss? Awareness by early lightning warning by CROPC to all, installing Lightening Protection Devices.

CROPC has a MOU with the IMD, Ministry of Earth Science (MoES),  GOI to disseminate early lightning forecasts which uses satellite observations, inputs from ‘network of Doppler and other radars’, ‘lightning detection Sensors’ among others.



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