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We have lightning.

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. Every resource we have. These graphics are updated daily around 800 am. If you hear thunder then you need to go indoors or get in a car.

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. Lightning is an electrical discharge caused by imbalances between storm clouds and the ground or within the clouds themselves. One that covered a distance of 709 kilometres and one that lasted 16 7 seconds. If you see dark clouds then lightning could be present but the best thing you can do is to listen for thunder.

The reason we see lightning before we hear thunder is because light travels faster than sound. Most lightning occurs within the clouds. Fire personnel braced for possible lightning and erratic wind gusts monday in the greater bay area but it. Printable versions are at the bottom of this page.

How does lightning form. To make this electric current first you need a cloud. Mouse over each day to view the 24 hour cumulative lightning strike map. 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.

Lightning is an electric current. Or seen sparks when you take off your jumper. Have you ever got a static electricity shock. 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.

When lightning is made the same thing happens but on a much bigger scale. 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. When the ground is hot it heats the air above it. Lightning can strike the ground in an open field even if the tree line is close by.

Satellites have detected two record shattering lightning flashes.