Bushwalk Australia

From ABC
Lucky guy, don't put your arms up for a photo when you get to the top.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-25/h ... es/8843640

Oooo...nasty. Both were very lucky by the sound of things.

Lucky! How do cloths get 'blown off' in these situations?

An average bolt of lightning, striking from cloud to ground, contains roughly one billion (1,000,000,000) joules of energy.

neilmny wrote:An average bolt of lightning, striking from cloud to ground, contains roughly one billion (1,000,000,000) joules of energy.

Yes, well aware of that and an amount of energy that can easily cook the individual. But the fact that the individual survives yet the clothing get blown off suggests there's a particular mechanism at work. So the question is, how?