{"id":178,"date":"2023-10-24T03:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/chinese-weatherman-is-struck-by-lightning-while-report\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T03:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:33","slug":"chinese-weatherman-is-struck-by-lightning-while-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-weatherman-is-struck-by-lightning-while-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Weatherman is Struck By Lightning While Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A bolt of lightning struck a weatherman and his videographer while they were recording a weather report in the northeast China on Monday morning. Neither suffered any permanent injuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bolt of lightning struck a weatherman and his videographer while they were recording a weather report in the northeast China on Monday morning. Neither suffered any permanent injuries.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Xiao Dong (pictured), a Chinese weather anchor, reported in a storm on a rooftop  Photo:Dailymail\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FqoliREJD2XzSIDBhDWxr4fqPmSq?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"634\" height=\"361\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5>Xiao Dong (pictured), a Chinese weather anchor, reported in a storm on a rooftop Photo:Dailymail<br \/><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Liu Xiaodong, an anchor for Dalian Weather TV, was reporting on a thunderstorm in Dalian, Liaoning Province when lightning struck close by, reported Chinese media The Paper.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Chinese media, Mr Liu said that they had just started recording his piece to camera when they both felt a tingling sensation in their arms before seeing sparks discharge from their hands and umbrellas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was lucky that we were not hit by the thunderbolt but rather an indirect lightning strike, otherwise the consequence is unthinkable,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the probability of a person being struck by lightning in their lifetime is 1 out of 12,000.<\/p>\n<p>Source:Gbtimes<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"webwxgetmsgimg 1.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bolt of lightning struck a weatherman and his videographer while they were recording a weather report in the northeast China on Monday morning. Neither suffered any permanent injuries. A &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}