Bathinda: The number and frequency of lightning strikes increases globally with blue bolts killing more people every next year, data shows.
Between April 2020 and March 2021, 18.5 million lightning strikes were recorded in India, a 34% increase of more than 13.8 million strikes between April 2019 and March 2020.
These statistics were distributed at webinars in lightning, organized by the Center for Science and Environment ( CSE) and Down to Earth Magazine.
Some states at the end of the recipient of this strike are Punjab, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Puducherry, Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal.
It was said that in Punjab, an increase in the number of lightning strikes had surprised 331% per year, while in Bihar – where 401 people lost their lives for a year-round lightning strike – there was a 168% increase.
Overall, 1,697 people were hit by lightning in India between March 2020 and April 2021.
“There is scientific evidence that develops that climate change can trigger more worlds.
Fast urbanization and population growth has guaranteed intensification of human exposure to the hazards of lightning,” said Editor of Bumi Management Richard Mahapatra.
A study of the 2015 California University has projected that an average global temperature increase of 1ºC will increase lightning frequency by 12%.
Another paper, was immediately published in the chemical and physics atmospheric journal, warned that the frequency and intensity of lightning strikes in India is expected to increase by 15-50% each at the end of this century.
The dimensions of the hunch of a surge in lightning strikes are their relationship with forest fires.
“Scientists from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Srinagar, and Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, have studied the concentration of Nucleus Cloud Condensation (CCN) in different weather conditions in the Central Himalayan region.
They have found a CCN concentration five times higher in the atmosphere during Forest fires opposed during the rain.
In May 2021, researchers in Australia connect the excess CCN with the increasing number of lightning strikes during 2019-20 Australia Forest Fires, “said Kiran Pandey, Director of the CSE Environmental Resources Unit Program.
Some progress has been made to fight the adverse effects of lightning strikes.
The increase in mortality has encouraged the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) to begin lightning forecasts starting April 1, 2019.
The Indian Lightning Lightning Campaign (LRIC), joint initiatives from several bodies such as the promotion board of the Climate Preparation System (CrOPC), National Disaster Management Authority, IMD, The Ministry of Union Minister of Earth and others aimed to reduce the number of deaths due to lightning strikes to less than 1,200 per year in 2022.
“Lric said this has succeeded in dropping death by more than 60% in two years.
Efforts dedicated by state governments such as Andhra Pradesh and Odisha have caused a decrease in 70% fatality, “the webinar told.
“The incident of lightning which was recorded revealed that seasonal lightning was different for different circumstances.
Therefore, it is important that the Lightning Risk Management program for each country is customized in accordance with the season, intensity and lightning frequency.
The state must zon micro lightning for the area within the area Their limits, depending on their geography, to deal with the risk of disaster and death better.
This is a recommendation of Lric, “Pandey said.
‘Punjab witnessed an increase of 331% in a lightning strike’
