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Why Coconut Trees Catch Fire During Thunderstorms

  • Many Nigerians claim that irregular events are supernatural in nature.
  • Meanwhile, the world is governed by universal rules that have little to do with faith.

Coconuts that burn up during a thunderstorm are subject to a natural rule. Scientists have deduced the truth behind the mysterious occurrence.

Coconuts have quite a lot of water, which acts as a magnet, and attracts the electric charge from a lightning bolt. Coconuts are similar to thunder resistors.

Coconuts have been something that absorbs the electric charge from lightning strikes, attributable to the high amount of humidity they carry, and their altitude.

Some residents purposefully grow coconut trees near their homes, to serve as a lightning deterrent.

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Despite the fact that the majority of high trees serve as a lightning protection system, citizens are cautioned not to stay under them, during rainstorms.

Each tree higher than any building in the neighborhood, or some other tree in the city, functions as a resistor of electrical charge during a lightning strike.

Lightning strikes have hit several coconut trees, causing them to burn, so it isn’t a spiritual phenomenon, as some Nigerians believe.

A high tree will act as a lightning absorber, catching the lighting, and preventing it from striking a neighboring building

Tall trees, like coconut, and palm trees, contain a host of water, and are high enough to draw thunder’s electric charge.

When lightning strikes a tree, the electrical energy is drawn to its outermost surface, causing an electromagnetic transfer that sparks the flame.

The thunderstorm’s powerful electrical charge will instantly start fires, that could desecrate a coconut tree.

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