Thunderclouds that cause lightning strikes increasing in frequency
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The thunderclouds that cause lightning strikes are increasing in frequency. So where are you most at risk? By Paul Gorman.
Sparks zapped between his metal fillings and leapt from his horse's shoes, confirming to
James Falloon that he had narrowly escaped a lightning strike.
Just 10 metres or so behind him, fellow Northland Hunt participant Roger McGill and his horse, Jaffa, lay dead.
Falloon, a former Canadian cowboy and now a semi-retired farmer in the Wairarapa, said thunder was rumbling to the north near Dargaville when the hunt began just before midday on April 15, 2008.