Tag: Lightning
A severe storm descended on Wellington, New Zealand this week. With one swift strike of lightning, Phil Price’s public artwork Zephyromete (2004) was incinerated. Before the storm, the pointy steel, carbon fiber, epoxy and concrete sculpture stood 108 feet tall, going “sup bro” at the sky. Now it is all split and burnt and broken. The piece was commissioned by […]
A small German company Blitzortung has created a real time map of lightning strikes over much of the world, all for free. Their spread out detectors help them determine the location of a lightning strike in seconds. The Vane explains: Let’s say there’s a thunderstorm over Dallas and a brilliant bolt of lightning strikes the center of […]
