We Have Lightning

The reason we see lightning before we hear thunder is because light travels faster than sound.

We have lightning.

Most lightning occurs within the clouds. To make this electric current first you need a cloud. This warm air. Lightning is an electrical discharge caused by imbalances between storm clouds and the ground or within the clouds themselves.

Every resource we have. Lnu lightning complex among 625 active california wildfires. Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions in the atmosphere or ground temporarily equalize themselves causing the instantaneous release of as much as one gigajoule of energy. How does lightning form.

A scishow kids viewer wants to know why do lightning and thunder happen get your raincoat because jessi will take you inside a thunderstorm to give you. The creation of lightning is a complicated process. If you hear thunder then you need to go indoors or get in a car. Lightning is an electric current.

These graphics are updated daily around 800 am. How do you know if lightning is nearby. When the ground is hot it heats the air above it. We generally know what conditions are needed to produce lightning but there is still debate about exactly how a cloud builds up electrical charges and how lightning forms.

One that covered a distance of 709 kilometres and one that lasted 16 7 seconds. Mouse over each day to view the 24 hour cumulative lightning strike map. Tampa bay lightning center brayden point 21 celebrates his goal against the dallas stars with nikita kucherov 86 during the second period of game 4 of the nhl hockey stanley cup final friday. Satellites have detected two record shattering lightning flashes.

Have you ever got a static electricity shock. Or seen sparks when you take off your jumper. This discharge may produce a wide range of electromagnetic radiation from very hot plasma created by the rapid movement of electrons to brilliant flashes of. When lightning is made the same thing happens but on a much bigger scale.

Lightning can strike the ground in an open field even if the tree line is close by.