The document discusses lightning and provides several links to resources about lightning. It describes lightning as a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm that can occur between different regions of a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground. The links included provide information about how lightning works, lightning safety from the National Weather Service, a real-time lightning map, a lightning primer from NASA, and lightning research from NASA.
The document discusses lightning and provides several links to resources about lightning. It describes lightning as a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm that can occur between different regions of a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground. The links included provide information about how lightning works, lightning safety from the National Weather Service, a real-time lightning map, a lightning primer from NASA, and lightning research from NASA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between that cloud and another cloud (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning). Lightning strike - Thunder - Ball lightning - Dark lightning
How Lightning Works - HowStuffWorks
science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/lightning.htm Lightning is a beautiful but deadly natural phenomenon. Learn about every aspect of lightning, from electrical storms and lightning strikes to lightning rods and ...
NWS Lightning Safety Home Page
www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/ NWS Lightning Safety Home Page. Lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Although most lightning occurs in the summer, people can be struck at any time of year. Lightning kills an average of 49 people in the United States each year, and hundreds more are severely injured.
LightningMaps.org: Real-Time Lightning Map
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GHRC: Lightning Primer
thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/primer/ Lightning, the thunderbolt from mythology, has long been feared as an atmospheric flash of supernatural origins: the great weapon of the gods. The Greeks both ...
GHRC Lightning & Atmospheric Electricity Research at GHRC
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GHRC has a long history of lightning-related research and data processing, beginning in the 1990s with instruments such as TRMM and LIS and continuing ...
Lightning - Weather Wiz Kids weather information for kids