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    2023 lightning deaths: Lightning strikes man working on roof

03:49 PM
May 23, 2023

2023 lightning deaths
Lightning strikes man working on roof

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Unfortunate news to report Tuesday as another person, fourth this year, dies due to a lightning strike. A construction worker in Deltona, Fla., was struck by lightning on Monday afternoon as storms built over Central Florida while the man was working on the roof of a house.

This is the second lightning fatality of the year in Florida, the first one happened in Brevard County on April 16 after a man, 39, was fishing on the water and was struck by lightning.

By late May, on average there are 3 lightning deaths.

The first fatality of the year was reported in mid-April in Pennsylvania after lightning struck a car and a 48-year-old man died. Another death was reported on May 15 in Valley Mills, Texas, when lightning struck a 24-year-old man walking home from a bus stop.

Eighty percent of lightning fatalities are male.

Storms can happen any time of the year, but the summer months rank up with more frequent storms, especially in the South. This is also when the most lightning fatalities occur. June and July are the months when, statistically, the most lightning deaths happen.

Irene Sans

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