{"id":5203,"date":"2024-03-07T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/lightning-strikes-burj-khalifa-in-stunning-video\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:11:07","slug":"lightning-strikes-burj-khalifa-in-stunning-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/lightning-strikes-burj-khalifa-in-stunning-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Strikes Burj Khalifa in Stunning Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stunning footage captured the moment a bolt of lightning directly struck the world\u2019s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Zohaib Anjum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4IXjbeJduV\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> he filmed the video on Tuesday, March 5, as a \u201cbig storm\u201d hit Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLightning flashed all around, even striking the Burj Khalifa three times,\u201d he wrote on Instagram. \u201cI was out all night chasing the storm. I can\u2019t wait for another storm this weekend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2023\/10\/27\/burj-khalifa-dubai-lightning-strike\/#:~:text=At%20828%20metres%20tall%2C%20the,lightning%20conductors%20in%20the%20world%22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to state media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According to state media<\/a>, the Burj Khalifa, which is 828 meters (2,716 feet) tall, is \u201csusceptible to lightning strikes during stormy weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lightning struck as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/2024\/03\/05\/uae-weather-warning-issued-as-heavy-rain-falls-in-abu-dhabi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:stormy weather;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/lightning-strikes-burj-khalifa-stunning-104114874.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning footage captured the moment a bolt of lightning directly struck the world\u2019s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. Zohaib Anjum said he filmed the video on Tuesday, March 5, as a \u201cbig storm\u201d hit Dubai. \u201cLightning flashed all around, even striking the Burj Khalifa three times,\u201d he wrote on Instagram. \u201cI was out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-burj-khalifa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}