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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JoynacintungulDoppler radar indicated strong thunderstorms with rotation or producing hail strong winds causing significant damage and can...
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most likely there is lighting from a further away storm and that's why the thunder occurs other wise i don't know
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to know approx. how far the lightning is from where you are, the first step to do is, by the time you see the lightning the...
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rough, rowdy,and adventurous
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because high ones are called high and low ones are called low. simples.
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Lightning photosThe best photos of lightning are taken at night time. This is an advantage because you can take very long...
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water with out salt water with out salt
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It is actually both. Here are details from from NSSL http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/faq/faq_ltg.php
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I aint doin ur hw sryyy! Losers
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Double ZapperYes. In fact, visible lightning usually comes up from the ground into the cloud! The lightning bolt is actually...
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Electricity is a secondary energy source which means it is produced from primary energy sources such as oil, gas, nuclear energy,...
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It builds up when clouds rub together, and it discharges its extra charge by releasing a bolt of lightning
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A tornado
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Before The Storm - Nick Jonas & Miley Cyrus :)
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Never. Thunder and lightning always come together. But you'd never know it. You always see the lightning before you hear the...
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Hailstones are so big because from precipitation. Hail is caused when the top of a thunderstorm reaches an altitude over 47000...
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A positively charged lightning rod provides a way for the negative charge built up along the bottom of the cloud to become...
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The main distinguishing trait of a supercell is that it rotates, which is not something out will find in an ordinary...
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From the sky or from the earth up.!
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Warm days are more likely going to be more humid than cool days, so more precipitation gathers making more storm clouds, which...
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yes it sends more particles just like the sun would and speeds up the process
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Light travels so fast that it reaches you pretty much instantaneously as it happens. Sound travels much slower and so it takes a...
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10 seconds
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i think it is 1,000 i am not sure yet so it is probably 100 lighting rod skylander there in the world.
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yes anything that is grounded can be struck so if its on the ground or flys in its path zap!!
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Lightning forms from the build up of electrons or negative charges in clouds that are attracted to positive charges in other...
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Yes, both are frozen water. Snowflakes form when water crystalizes out of saturated air. Hail is formed when frozen raindrops...
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until you can hear it
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AnswerIn Tucson, during the summer monsoon, which starts about the mid till end of July and lasts about 3-4 weeks, many...
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Lightning causes thunder. Thunder is the sound of the shock wave created when superheated air molecules violently expand from...
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"Lightning is a powerful electrical discharge produced during a thunderstorm. The electric current is very hot and causes...
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it has nothing to do with fixation it can rub against it and explode
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A lightning bolt only is 1/2 an inch wide, but looks tremendously larger due to luminosity.
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Florida is #1...Colorado is a close second
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Sound takes about 4.6 seconds to travel one mile. So 12 seconds divided by 4.6 = 2.6 miles away. However, since you're probably...
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Because "heat lightning" is just lightning from a storm that is too far away (over 30 miles) to hear.
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Lightning kills about 100 people in the US each year, and injures about 1000. So you have 10 chances in 11 (or about 91%) of...
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no she did not have a brother
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Yes. As light travels faster than sound you see the lightning first and then hear the thunder.
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because he accused poseidon of stealing his master bolt! his symbol of power! if he were to lose it, other gods would try to...
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The Bernoulli Principle
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clouds dont really move across the sky, the way the Earth spins make the clouds appear that they are moving. the clounds dont move
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This all depends on the type of violin you have and how you tune the strings. it can be both high pitch and low pitch.
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According to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, "In Canada, lightning kills about seven people and seriously injures 60 to...
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If in the mid-latitudes, storms are usually associated with low pressure systems. Cold fronts associated with a low pressure...
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Lightning occurs as a discharge of energy from charged air masses in clouds, and can be from cloud to cloud or from a cloud to...
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Benjamin Franklin
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Orographic rainfall is when a parcel of air containing water vapor gets to a mountain, it is then forced upwards (the mountain...
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tension on vocal cords
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Right when you hear thunder start counting by seconds. When you see lightning, whatever number you got to is how many miles away...
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Thunder will always happen first . . . I think . . .
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yellow/black
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Yes, lightning can strike several miles from a parent storm.
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The answer is essentially in the question. Sound is the sensation caused by vibrations in the air. The faster the vibrations,...
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Thunderstorms can only develop when certain conditions pertain.-Unstable atmospheric conditions (The environmental lapse rate...
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You do; the phenomenon is known as thundersnow. However, winter thunderstorms are a rarity; and the reason is because of air...
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NO.i saw a programme on telly where they simulated a lightning strike on top of a car. the charge went round the frame and into...
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Sound waves travel one kilometer in 2.9 seconds (or one mile in 4.6 seconds). Therefore the lightning was probably about 1.75...
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I have a friend whose father was working with a buddy on a construction site and he was wearing rubber boots and the other person...
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The temperature of a flash of lightning can reach 28,000C (50,000F)
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It occurs most frequently in "Hail Alley", which runs from Nebraska to Colorado and up to Wyoming. Frequent thunderstorms...
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Thunderstorms do become cyclones.Cyclones begin as tropical storms out over the ocean, but in order to develop into cyclones,...
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voltage
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Rising, expanding and cooling.
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condensation creates thunder clouds.
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Lightning bolt. The gods are more powerful than science, apparently.
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Thunder is caused by lightning. Thunder is the sound caused by rapidly expanding gases a channel of lightning discharge....
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this depends on what you are asking, exactly. the actual measurement of power is very different than if you were asking how many...
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The distance would depend upon the force of each individual strike.
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Lightning can strike upwards, from the ground to the sky, and it can also strike downwards, from one cloud to another, or from...
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Lightning is pure electricity that is in the air.
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His wifes name was Myrtle Marie nee Travers Brady.
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"un orage de grêle" hail (noun): la grêle (fem.) to hail: grêler a hailstone = un grêlon
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It means the atmosphere was sufficiently unstable to support strong convection, manifesting itself as a thunderstorm. What else...
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if you look it isn't perfectly round just formed in the particles shape, so any shape is possible to get.
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It does burn. Trees struck by lightning (or that strike power lines) will be scorched and often die completely as a result. In...
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8,640,000 per day. See the related link for more information.
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USA Today quotes Peggy LeMone, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, as saying that a thunderstorm...
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Rainy weather can lead to depression and suicide due to the hypotheyialchtiranal part of our brain. If we see rainy weather and...
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Florida has the most lightning strikes in the nation as well as the most deaths by lightning.
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There are a number of things that can happen depending on the sercumstances, lightning takes the shortest route to the ground, so...
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According to the National Safety Council, in the United States in 2004, 46 people were killed by lightning. The chance of dying...
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communolimbus cloud
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'''''He proved equality.'''''
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It's fiction, but it makes you feel like the book is real which is good since that's what authors aim for.
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