Though deaths from lightning injuries are infrequent, which amounts to 0.2-0.8 per million people per year, once struck inevitably kills the person. Like other weather conditions, can’t it also be predicted? Of course it can be! A device invented by a University of Oklahoma professor measures exactly that – the likelihood that lightning will strike.
The device measures electricity in the atmosphere, providing advance warning that lightning may be imminent! William Beasley, a University of Oklahoma professor of meteorology informed. He helped invent this amazing device named — Campbell Scientific CS-110 Electric Field Meter.
The National Weather Center building at OU will soon have one of these devices set atop it.
