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Striking Lightning Facts ... Lightning Safety Facts from NOAA. ... If you want to learn more about lightning and other interesting weather facts and phenomena thenbuy these books from your local book store:
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www.stormwise.com/striking.htm
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Lightning Injury Facts ... An article about both lightning and electrical injuries ... but injuries from lightning must surely predate written records. Depictions of lightning affecting people or events appear in writings and drawings from almost every ancient religion.
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www.uic.edu/labs/lightninginjury/ltnfacts.htm
www.uic.edu/labs/lightninginjury/ltnfacts.htm
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Summary of lightning parameters ... A short compendium of information about lightning. ... A typical lightning flash lasts about a quarter of a second and consists of 3 or 4 individual discharges called strokes. Each stroke lasts a few ten thousandths of a second, although the visual appearance is longer.
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home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/lfacts.htm
home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/lfacts.htm
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Recent satellite data suggests that there are more than 3 million lightning flashes worldwide per day, or more than 30 flashes per second on average. This includes flashes within or between clouds as well as flashes extending from cloud to ground.
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www.ucar.edu/communications/infopack/lightning/faq.html
www.ucar.edu/communications/infopack/lightning/faq.html
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Lightning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. In the atmospheric el...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning
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Facts about LIGHTNING. ... While people do get killed by lightning, most survive it. Here are some facts about lightning taken from the Stormwise website, makers of very good and inexpensive lightning detection devices:
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www.stormwarn.com/rants/lightning.html
www.stormwarn.com/rants/lightning.html
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Average Lightning Stroke is 6 miles long. ... The Temperature of lightning's return stroke can reach 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The surface of the sun is not even that hot! (around 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit). ... These facts are taken from the Automated Weather Source Online...
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www.prazen.com/cori/litfacts.html
www.prazen.com/cori/litfacts.html
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Lightning bolts travel at speeds of up to 60,000 miles per second. ... A single lightning bolt travels through twisted paths in the air that can be as wide as one of your fingers or from six to ten miles.
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www.angelfire.com/ct2/lightning/interesting_facts.htm
www.angelfire.com/ct2/lightning/interesting_facts.htm
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Look at the history of lightning, lightning in science and its detection. ... One of the most powerful forces in nature, lightning was once magical, mysterious, and misunderstood. Historically, myth and legend accounted for lightning with stories of angry gods and heroes. Today, meteorologists uses lightning as a tool...
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sln.fi.edu/weather/lightning/lightning.html
sln.fi.edu/weather/lightning/lightning.html
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