Growing up, I was told to exit the pool when there was rain. It makes sense- relatively small volume of water + significant voltage can conclude pool day pretty quick.
But what about the ocean? If water conducts electricity, how does lightning not spread to every beach all the time?
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Basically it gets “diluted”, the lightning travels in all directions through the water so as the volume of water that it passes through increases the charge decreases.
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