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.
(I ask everyone who believes that the United States has God on its side to consider the theological implications of lightning striking the Mall on the 4th of July.) The NOAA website says that 400 people a year get struck by lightning, but doesn't make it clear whether that's worldwide or nationwide. Between 1997 and 2006, 437 people in the United States died from lightning strikes. Wyoming is the most dangerous state for lightning, and no one died of lightning strikes in Alaska, Delaware, D.C., Hawaii, New Hampshire or Washington state.