You are learning until the day you die

I like to look back on each day and note the things that I learned. When you do this, you will find that what you did learn will tend to stick with you more. Its kind of like when you really need to remember to do something, you write it down. It is not the fact that the paper will remind you, it just helps to remember something simply because you wrote the note.
One thing that I learned the other day that I found very interesting was that the rubber in your tires DO NOT protect you from lightning. More will be available on this at http://www.rideweather.com/forum/ when I get my story finished for the site. I learned this when I visited the National Weather Service center in my hometown of Melbourne, Florida. I met a forecaster that was also a lightning specialist. It surprised me when he told me that a motorcyclist had been struck and killed by lightning.