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PROF. E. W. MARCHANT, 20, Harthill Road, Liverpool, 18, writes : "During a severe thunderstorm in Liverpool on July 31, the centre of the roadway was struck by lightning. The lightning discharge produced a crack about six feet long in the asphalte road surface near the centre of the road and close to a manhole cover, which, I understand, was open at the time of the storm. Six or seven pieces of melted tar were scattered over the road close to the crack. Heavy rain was falling at the time and the interesting thing about the discharge was that it struck the flat surface of the road, although, only thirty feet away on each side, were trees about twenty feet high."
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Effect of Lightning Discharge. Nature 162, 366 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162366c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162366c0