More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won ...
A single lightning “megaflash” stretched an astonishing 515 miles ... As the updraft weakens, charge layers can stretch outward more than upward. That geometry favors lateral growth of a single, ...
These brief bursts blue jets, red sprites, ELVES are collectively termed transient luminous events, or TLEs. They explode tens of kilometers high over thunderstorms, in the rarefied atmosphere of the ...
The event began with the approach of two opposing electrical discharges: a downward-propagating leader from a thundercloud and an upward leader emerging from a television transmission tower in ...
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INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTNING: Lightning and thunderclouds -- The stepped leader -- The return stroke -- The dart leader -- More on strokes and flashes -- Intracloud discharges -- Strokes bringing ...