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Subject: [TowerTalk] lightning & trees
From: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
Reply-to: jimjarvis@ieee.org
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:53:14 -0500
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It was written: 

Tulip Poplars are Very prone to Lightning hits. I have quite  few on my
place that show evidence of hits above 40-50 ft.  A Tulip Poplar that has
been hit will show a "Y" or a "Zag" where the top was when it was hit.

and I wonder:

Why would one species of tree be more likely to be hit by lightning 
than another?   Unless perhaps there is a stand of one species in a
higher location than other trees?

n2ea
jimjarvis@ieee.org 

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