1 A highly excitable pup that jumps at you is cute but an 18 lb pup can grow up to 80 lbs rather quickly. A full grown 80 lb Labrador Retriever habitually jumping at you is not.  Labradors should learn to cope and connect with other people and dogs. This breed is very social; they like to feel that they are not alone.
Below are some additional facts about lightning: 1  25 million - Average U.S. cloud-to-ground lightning strikes per year. 2  50,000 degrees (F) - Temperature that lightning can reach. 3  1,800 - Average number of thunderstorms on earth at any given moment.  100 - Number of times lightning hits earth per second.
More than 50% of lightning deaths occur AFTER the storm has passed. Thunder: The air near a lightning strike is heated to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than the surface of the sun. Rapid heating and cooling of air near the lightning channel causes a shock wave that results in thunder.