Oil Hurricane

What happens if a hurricane with lighting hits the oil spill?

if there was a storm in a hurricane and it hit the oil spill, would it be a huge fireball?
Its more of a hypothetical question. I’m not really assuming or referring to anything.

Hypothetically speaking, we’ll assume there is an oil spill occurring during hurricane season. As with most things hurricane related, the storm surge would be of larger concern than lightning as the storm surge would more than likely push the oil inland and cause much more devastation than if it became a “fireball”. Imagine the images of the coastline with oil on it from the gulf oil spill, and then imagine that oil extending a mile or more inland. This would be catastrophic.

The likelihood of lightning in a hurricane causing a fireball seems low as the lightning is generally not cloud to ground according to current research. In addition, the turbulent conditions of the waves would cause the oil spill to be broken up and more than likely, if lightning did happen to ignite a portion of it, the entire spill would not catch on fire. These combined would seem to defeat the “fireball” argument.

Good question though!

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