Thunderstorms and Lightning
Also referred to as a lightning storm, a thunderstorm is a weather form wherein thunder and lightning are present. Thunderstorms, most especially if accompanied by heavy rains and downburst winds, pose hazards to people and the environment.
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JoynacintungulThe heart, brain and spinal cord. Most people die of cardiac arrhythmia.
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Here are the opinions and answers from FAQ Farmers: If you can hear thunder, the lightning strike has already occurred since...
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In all effect there is little evidence that lightning striking a body of water will create a splash. This is due to there having...
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Often you can feel the static building up or hear rock sizzling. RUN! Physical Signs that Lightning Might StrikeHere are...
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ASH Buckminsterfullerenes -Minute quantities of the fullerenes, in the form of C60, C70, C76, C82 and C84 molecules, are...
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The lightning bolt as important in Greek Mythology because it was the symbol of Zeus, lord of the sky and ruler of Olympus
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No, you can't get struck by thunder. Thunder is only sound but you can get struck by lightening. But it's less likely to get...
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Your dog probably pees because it is scared.
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No! That is VERY RISKY! See, if it's a lightning storm, lightning might come down and hit your rod as you cast it out. Also if...
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Speaking from experience, I tell people that are afraid of lightning that, if they can see it, hear it, or feel it, it is already...
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Lightning Activator 6854 is designed for use in Transtar's Finish-Tec Clearcoats to provide a long lasting high gloss finish....
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A thunderstorm does not become a tornado. It can produce one. Yes, though. If the atmosphere is unstable enough and there is...
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Thunder is a pressure wave that wears out by the time it reaches tree level. Lightning however can knock down trees or catch them...
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Yes some hail is or some can be frozen rain by the temperature of the air.
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Yes, quite easily and often.
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Slower. Nothing goes faster than light, which travels at a speed of 300.000 km/second, or 186.000 miles/second. Sound travels...
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A thunderstorm does not become a tornado, it produces them. How exactly thunderstorm produce tornadoes, but this is the best...
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Lightning is an electrical discharge between positively and negatively charged regions, usually cloud-to-cloud or...
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many thunderstorms occur in spring and summer but intense thunderstorms occur around tornado season
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Well, during normal circumstances it should not. Hard drive is a magnetic media that stores pieces of information. If there is...
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Lightning causes nitrogen in the atmosphere to form compounds such as ammonia. In this form the nitrogen can be used by plants...
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It is called a Squall Line
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minor to severe damage like trees almost or cut in half or if a lightning strike strike your house or chimney then the chimney...
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after a lightning storm there is no more storm
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A typical lightning bolt contains 1 billion volts and contains between 10,000 to 200,000 amperes of current. The average flash...
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thunders is loud lightning can strike you if thunderstorms bring hail or tornadoes then hail going to knock you out and tornadoes...
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Lightning can damage power grids and high winds can topple trees onto power lines, or even knock down the utility poles directly.
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Be elsewhere. If it hits you, it is pure luck if you live or die. You might try lying absolutely flat on the ground, well away...
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There could be positive charges on the ground so chouch on all 4s & keep your head low. Do not lie on the ground full-lengh.
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Of course not. It only appears that way.
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There are many benefits from thunderstorms: Thunderstorms are a direct result of atmospheric heating and increased air...
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1 Yes, John Dennis (1657 - 1734) devised a thunder and lightning stage effect for one of his plays which was a flop. He went to...
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sometimes they are used interchangeably but technically a Lightning storm involves visible lightning bolts striking the earth. A...
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Lighting always comes just before thunder because it is the heat of lightning that causes thunder. Lightning is seen when there...
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Static wicks, which are attached to the trailing edges of control surfaces are designed to help dissipate this charge to the...
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It isn't guaranteed to kill someone, although it's obviously something to avoid. Roy Sullivan, a park warden from Virginia, USA,...
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Weather becomes cool and clear after a thunderstorm because of the instability in the air along the "frontal boundary" between...
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The main effects on the earth by lightning is the production of forest fires and also the production of nitrate fertilizer into...
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=Answer= When warm, moist air rises very quickly, deep cumulonibus storm clouds form. Ice crystals and water droplets whirl...
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No, the northern lights are a phenomenon that typically occurs in the thermosphere, the second highest layer of the atmosphere....
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Mainly for protecting houses or buildings from lightning bolts.
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Cumulonimbus Clouds (thunderclouds) Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and usually dark. These clouds form...
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When a lightning discharge occurs, the air is heated greatly by the amount of voltage that discharged through the air (approx 100...
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lightning is static electricity.
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Lightning strike Hotter than the Sun? The temperature of the air around a bolt of lightning is about 54,000°F (30,000°C), which...
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The frequency. This is how squashed up or streched out the waves are.
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If you are talking about the sound type, then high & low pitches depend on vibrations. For example: You are speaking to...
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A record was set in Vivian, South Dakota in 2010! On July 23, a stone 8 inches in diameter, 18.62 inches in circumference, and...
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low pressure
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AnswerThe distance between you and the lightening can be estimated by counting the seconds between the two. Since sound travels...
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Wildfires may be started by lightning or by careless humans. They can become disasters when they rapidly move into developed...
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the lightning heats up the sand causing the silica in the sand to melt causing natural glass these are called "fulgurites". and...
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Light travels faster than sound. Thunder and lightning provide a good example. Light moves at 299 million metres per second....
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Hail is found anywhere thunderstorms occur, especially severe storms. This would be most places in the mid-latitudes, especially...
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idk i think it is: Lightning is caused by an electric potential difference (a voltage) being created between one cloud and...
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Hail is formed when ice particles are carried up and down within the updraft of a strong thunderstorm. The pieces of ice pass...
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Because Lightening usually strikes at the highest point.
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Just under 30 seconds. The speed of sound in air is 1100 feet per second. To cover 10K (which is 6.2 miles), you could multiply...
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According to the US Government's National Weather Service (NWS) website: The odds of being struck by lightening in a given year...
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It will receive very bad burns, and may die of shock.
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About 1-2 kilometers above the ground.
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The electricity is quickly dispersed - water is a poor conductor of electricity - and some of the water is split into oxygen and...
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Yes you can, it is the car that you can't be in,or also you can't be under a tree.
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A kid named Percy Jackson who finds out he is a demi-god and is not safe any more because Zeus thinks he stole his master...
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Well, thunder is created by the sudden burst of energy discharge when lightning strikes/appears. Lightning appears when...
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Warm moist air is being lifted over cold dry air behind the front. This lifting saturates the air, creates clouds, and makes...
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This is because the land is heated during the day and in the afternoon the hot heated moistt air rises, it rises high enough then...
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Hail requires strong updrafts to keep the hydrometeors suspended to accumulate ice. The only clouds that can normally support...
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A lightning rod (or lightning protector) is a metal strip or rod, usually of copper or similar conductive material, used as part...
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Cumulonimbus CloudsCumulonimbus is a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other bad weather. The...
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Nothing, because they are due to the same exact event. Thunder is what you hear, lightning is what you see, but both are due to...
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An atmospheric pressure discharge is an electrical discharge in air at atmospheric pressure.An electrical discharge is a plasma,...
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A higher frequency produces a higher pitch
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Fried Fish?Here are opinions and answers (In the form of an argument): Really fish do get fried if they happen to be in the area...
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According to the U.S. National Weather Service, the odds of being struck by lightning -- in your lifetime -- are 1 in 5,000. The...
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23.96 Bye the way that is just for the sled dogs of china
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This question is not very clear. Since a bolt of lightning carries enough energy to cause severe harm or death no matter what...
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Hail is formed when clouds, specifically cumulonimbus clouds, have both high altitudes and powerful updrafts within the...
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Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey wrote both the songs and the play.
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Simple, it is due to the fact that warm moist air is usually what is often ahead fronts. The warm moist air colliding with the...
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Lightning comes in every color of the rainbow(Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Violet, to name a few). It's almost always...
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no light comes before sound its the law of conservation of energy
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AnswerBasically, scattered thunderstorms are generally weak, widespread short thunderstorms that turn on and off due to a storm...
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An imaginary line marking the simultaneous development of a thunderstorm, as noted by observing the time when the thunder is...
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October 13th 10pm
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Lighting makes ozone. But the ozone does not reach the ozone layer.
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No. A watch means conditions are favorable. A warning means the storm is there.
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Your car's chassis acts as a Faraday cage. All the electrons are repelling each other, so that all of them travel the outside of...
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ADVANTAGES OF LIGHTNING advantages is that it creates ozone and we need that to protect ourselves from ultra-violet radiation...
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People get struck by lightning for a number of reasons: The human body is is about 80 percent salty water. Salty water is a good...
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Find a deep ditch, lay in it.
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cumulonimbus is taller than the nimbocumulus
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yes... obviously! what difference does it make at night? also - it has hailed on my house at night. and it was really loud....
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