The SPSA says lightning strikes that cause damage to structures like homes or buildings are extremely rare in Saskatchewan.
A caller reported to the Saskatoon Fire Department at 10:40 p.m. that smoke was exiting the roof around five kilometres south of the city in the rural municipality of Corman Park.
“Lightning strikes that cause damage to structures like homes or buildings are extremely rare in Saskatchewan.”Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Terri Lang said on Thursday that these types of fires happen every year, but odds are lightning won’t strike or cause damage to houses.“Lightning tends to strike higher objects, buildings, trees, poles, that type of thing, and because we’re so flat here on the Prairies, our houses and our trees and such tend to be the taller objects.
“I can count probably at least 10 lightning strikes in there that could have caused that,” Lang said. “There is some leeway… we can get it within a certain range. Our detection efficiency is within half a kilometre,” she said. “The band which the lightning travels — the path, the channel — is only about the width of two pencils. Even though it looks a lot bigger… but the amount of current that comes to a lightning strike varies quite a bit,” she said.
Lang said houses provide great protection but noted that if lightning strikes it, electricity can travel through the metal piping so people shouldn’t shower during a thunderstorm.
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