ORLANDO, Fla. – July in Central Florida is hot, humid, stormy, and the most active month for lightning deaths.
History speaks for itself. Nearly 34 years ago a 15-year-old boy was struck and killed while water skiing. In 1990, a man who was wading in the ocean was killed by lightning just after noon.
A year later lightning took the life of a fisherman in a boat on Lake Eva. Not all victims of lightning are in or on water. In 1964, a citrus grove worker was killed while working in a Haines City orange grove.