How does crouching with your heels touching and hands on your head protect you from lightning?
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In the United States, [the National Weather Service stopped recommending the lightning crouch in 2008](https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-crouch) precisely because it didn’t “provide a significant level of protection.”:
> Promoting the crouch gives people the false impression that crouching will provide safety. Even to promote the crouch as a last resort when a person’s hair stands on end gives people the impression that they will get a warning sign or that there is something that they can do in that situation which would prevent them from being struck.
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