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Lightning and water
When lightning hits a lake will the electricity travel through it to the people who may be swimming?
(Let's just say they happen not to get out in time from some like massive and sudden storm)
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Lighting very rarely hits water, since it is almost always the lowest point in an area. If it does, the electricity has a large sphere of dense water to go through, so it's only lethal out to about 20 feet.
If lighting struck water often and had a large lethal range, there would be no fish.
That said, swimming in the middle of a lake makes you the highest object for a long ways. Lighting will be more likely to hit you.
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Yes. It's actually not the water that's conductive, it's the electrolytes in water, such as salt, trace minerals like lead, copper etc...Usually the less pure the water, (dirtier) the better conductor it makes. Where as pure H2o isn't conductive. I'd still not recommend putting the family pet and the hair dryer in pure water.
So yes, at the sign of a storm, get out of the water.
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