An Australian man, after being struck by lightning and surviving, suddenly gained a strange ability: he can accurately predict when a storm is approaching. This forecasting has occurred multiple times, and his family reports that he has never been wrong.
There are quite a few cases of individuals developing unique abilities after experiencing disasters. For this Australian man, it is the ability to forecast storms after being struck by lightning.
In November 2015, Kristoffer Green, 31, from Queensland (Australia), took his young daughter to a medical center to check on a bee sting. As he was leaving, a storm was brewing, so he held an umbrella over his daughter next to their car. Suddenly, a lightning bolt struck him directly.
Kristoffer Green. (Photo: 9 News).
Green recounted: “The umbrella had a wooden handle, but my fingers were resting on the metal part. I just saw a flash of light and then I don’t remember anything. Luckily, my wife was with me at the time. She said I fell and lost consciousness.”
Fortunately, they were right at the entrance of the medical center, and Green was quickly attended to by doctors. However, when he woke up in the hospital, he had no idea where he was or what had happened.
Although he was lucky to survive, even now, nearly seven years later, Green still suffers from the consequences of being struck by lightning: he always knows when a storm is about to hit.
Many might think this is a miraculous and desirable ability, but for Green, it is not. He explained that whenever his right arm—the path the lightning took—feels a tingling sensation followed by pain and extreme anxiety, it is a sign that a storm is on the way.
“For many years, my ‘forecasting’ has always happened like this,” Green said. Each time he senses a storm is approaching, he tells his wife, and sure enough, within a few hours or by the next day, a storm passes through their area.
According to statistics, the number of lightning strikes has been increasing in recent years. Approximately 1.4 billion lightning strikes occur worldwide each year, which is about 44 strikes per second. This also means that out of every 12,000 people, one is at a significant risk of being struck by lightning.
