I'd planned a massive Saturday morning swim today at the Y, but I'm here on the couch blogging because there's a thunderstorm in progress. A few years ago the Y started closing the pool (indoors) during lightning. After all these years. All of a sudden.
How many of you practice at facilities where the pool closes down in lightning storms?
Is there a good reason for this?
Have we all been risking our lives for the last 50 years?
Just wondering!
I live in Arizona where we have crazy electrical storms during our summer monsoons. I've witnessed many storms where there is a lightning flash just about every second for an hour. Granted, most of the flashes are not cloud-to-ground, but there will be hundreds of ground strikes during such a storm, not to mention lots and lots of loud thunder. I love it!
The most active month tends to be August. I joined my gym and started swimming again last November, well after the monsoon season was over. After reading this thread I'm dying to know what the policy is regarding electrical storm activity.
In case anyone is interested, here's a link to a blog post of mine from August of 2008 where a particularly wild storm was taking place: debaru.blogspot.com/.../white-lightning.html
The weather images show how many lightning ground strikes were taking place along with a neat little video of a close strike.
I live in Arizona where we have crazy electrical storms during our summer monsoons. I've witnessed many storms where there is a lightning flash just about every second for an hour. Granted, most of the flashes are not cloud-to-ground, but there will be hundreds of ground strikes during such a storm, not to mention lots and lots of loud thunder. I love it!
The most active month tends to be August. I joined my gym and started swimming again last November, well after the monsoon season was over. After reading this thread I'm dying to know what the policy is regarding electrical storm activity.
In case anyone is interested, here's a link to a blog post of mine from August of 2008 where a particularly wild storm was taking place: debaru.blogspot.com/.../white-lightning.html
The weather images show how many lightning ground strikes were taking place along with a neat little video of a close strike.
