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Man Killed by Lightning Day After News Site Says There Were No Deaths This Year

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The National Weather Service reported 17 people died across the U.S. in 2020 after being struck by lightning.
People claim The Washington Post « tempted fate » after revealing no one had been killed by a lightning strike in 2021, only for a man to die the next day. The news site shared an article entitled « The United States has yet to see a lightning fatality this year, a record to date, » published on Tuesday. They uploaded the story on their Twitter page the following day, captioned: « Nobody has been killed by lightning in the United States this year, the first time the nation has made it this far into the year without a lightning death. » But just hours after it was shared, a man died after being struck by lightning in New Jersey. Accuweather cited a report from the National Weather Service (NWS), confirming a man died on Wednesday after being struck at around 3.45 p.m. EDT. Action News later revealed the man, who hasn’t been identified, was playing golf at the Burlington Country Club in Westampton Township.

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