Lightning Safety Close to Home for Forecaster 2005: It was Lightning Safety Awareness Week when a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa, was typing a newscast about a non-severe thunderstorm that was approaching the area. suddenly, he felt a force grab him as he worked at the keyboard. It was electricity from a nearby lightning strike that had traveled through the electronic circuitry and struck him directly. He was taken to the hospital and released. It was the second time the building had been struck in the past few years.
1911- It was a hot July 4 in Nashua, New Hampshire, and Vernon, Vermont, which recorded the highest reading sever for both states, with 106°F and 105°F respectively.
