Is lightning only attracted to tall people?
In: Earth Science
The rules that govern the behavior of electricity dictate that this must be true.
Making the initial connection that precipitates a strike is more likely to happen to an object that sticks up above the surrounding landscape.
The more this is true, the likelier this event is. The taller the object the better the odds.
Extend that objects height into the clouds and the odds change from likely to near inevitable.
But here is the rub.
The difference between the height of a tall person and a short person compared to the height of the cloud base is tiny. So tiny that the difference in the odds is so small that it is drowned out by other factors, like the soil conductivity under your feet or the chance cosmic ray that ionizes a path in the air above you.
So being tall is in no way significant to your odds of being struck by lightning.
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