Dogs can be very sensitive to changes
in barometric pressure that occur before a storm, but it's also possible that some dogs — especially long - coated breeds — become statically
charged during a
thunderstorm, receiving electric shocks from static
in the air unless they «ground» themselves.
At 9:00 p.m. on Thursday
in Miami Beach, when a torrential
thunderstorm caused flooding on much of Collins Avenue, the surge
charge on an UberX had reached a rate of 9.9.