Remember, unplug your aerials, don't shelter under trees... and if you heed the below, don't take a shower or a pee either...

Roy Sullivan of Virginia was struck by lightning seven times in his life – the most one man has ever been hit. In 1942 he lost a toenail. Then, twenty-seven years later, in 1969, he was struck again and lost his eyebrows. He was hit again in 1970, 1972, 1973, 1976 and 1977. Was he especially tall? Half man, half pylon? So many questions...

Tororo, Uganda
If you want to avoid lightning strikes avoid living here. In Tororo, Uganda, lightning occurs 251 days a year. The frequent strikes are thought to occur because of the large amount of iron in the soil. 10% of the lightning strikes result in death and 70% lead to permanent injuries including cardiac arrest, brain damage and memory loss.
This lady should come with a warning sign. Marta Maikia from Bulgaria might as well change her surname to Conductor. Her first husband, Randolph Eastman was killed by lightning two months after their marriage. Marta's second husband was killed by lightning on the spot when the couple traveled to Spain. Then, to cope with her understandable ensuing depression, Marta went to the doctors – and fell for her GP who became her third husband. And you've guessed it, he was struck too.

Brisbane, Australia
In November 2012 Brisbane, Australia was pummelled by thunderstorms so intense the city was hit by lightning 4,000 times in one hour – and 11,000 times in total in one day. Wind gusts of up to 90 kilometres per hour were reported at Double Island Point, and hail up to 6 centimetres in diameter was seen throughout the region.
There's unlucky, and then there's unlucky....In August 2010, a British teenager was struck by lightning on Friday 13th, at exactly 13:13pm. He was watching an aeronautical display at the Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival.

Christ the Redeemer, Rio
In January this year lightening broke the finger off the right hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Was it a celestial warning perhaps of a forthcoming 7-1 defeat...?
During a football game between Bena Tshadi and visitors Basanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all 11 members of a football team were killed by a bolt of lightning which left the other team unhurt. Thirty other people received burns at the match. Locals were divided on whether someone had cursed the team.

Rhineland, Germany
Talk about putting the spark back into a relationship. Jens Gottlieb, 36 and his 28-year-old girlfriend Lisa Gruhn decided to get down to a spot of hanky panky in a wood in North-Rhine Westphalia, western Germany. Not even a torrential downpour put them off – until lightning struck next to their tree and they were forced to run onto the road naked.
Essex teen Sophie Frost is living proof modern technology isn't all bad for kids. The 14 year old stopped to shelter under a tree when a storm struck near her home in 2009. She was hit by lightning and only survived because the 300,000-volt surge travelled through the wire of her iPod, diverting it away from her vital organs.

Gothenburg, Sweden
Is nowhere safe? A 12-year-old girl in Gothenburg was struck by lightning twice while taking a shower during a thunderstorm. It's thought the blast struck the house and travelled through the pipes.
At this moment I'm extremely relieved to be a woman. Croatian Ante Djindjic, 29, will be hoping lightening does not strike in the same place twice. He was knocked unconscious when lightning struck his penis during a roadside toilet break. Djindjic said: "Doctors said the lightning went through my body and because I was wearing rubber boots it earthed itself through my penis."