The Beauty of Lightning

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This lens is all about lightning! Here you can find beautiful pictures and unusual facts about lightning. Hope you enjoy and find this information useful, for all the lightning lovers! Oh, and don't forget to watch the awesome video..

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Lightning Info 

Lightning detection systems in the United States monitor an average of 25 million strokes of lightning from clouds to ground during some 100,000 thunderstorms every year. It is estimated that Earth as a whole is struck by an average of more than a hundred lightning bolts every second.

The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000.

Lightning can kill people (3,696 deaths were recorded in the U.S. between 1959 and 2003) or cause cardiac arrest. Injuries range from severe burns and permanent brain damage to memory loss and personality change. About 10 percent of lightning-stroke victims are killed, and 70 percent suffer serious long-term effects. About 400 people survive lightning strokes in the U.S. each year.

Lightning is not confined to thunderstorms. It's been seen in volcanic eruptions, extremely intense forest fires, surface nuclear detonations, heavy snowstorms, and in large hurricanes.

Ice in a cloud may be key in the development of lightning. Ice particles collide as they swirl around in a storm, causing a separation of electrical charges. Positively charged ice crystals rise to the top of the thunderstorm, and negatively charged ice particles and hailstones drop to the lower parts of the storm. Enormous charge differences develop.

The negatively charged bottom part of the storm sends out an invisible charge toward the ground. When the charge gets close to the ground, it is attracted by all the positively charged objects, and a channel develops. The subsequent electrical transfer in the channel is lightning.

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PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning
Nikola Tesla
Lightning Protection Institute
The Lightning Protection Institute is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1955. Our members are dedicated to ensuring that today's lightning protection systems are the best possible quality - in design, materials and installation - so that precious lives and property can be protected from the damaging and costly affects of one of nature's most exciting phenomenons - lightning.
Lightning Detector: ThunderBolt Storm Detector
ThunderBolt Storm Detector is a hand-held, portable storm-tracking instrument. Using state-of-the-art technology, our lightning detectors analyze and instantly report on storms as far as 75 miles away, and provide information about distance, speed, ETA, and hazard level.
NASD: Boating-Lightning Protection
"One minute the fisherman was sitting atop his elevated seat aboard his boat. The next minute he was dead--the victim of a lightning bolt."
This was the lead paragraph in a recent Florida newspaper article. These accidents can and do happen--and yet they need not.
Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nikola Tesla From Wikipedia, I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
Born
10 July 1856(1856-07-10)
Died
7 January 19
Lightning: The Shocking Story--National Geographic Kids
Get the science and the stories behind
the bolts that strike our Earth a hundred times every second.
Lightning Facts, Lightning Photos, Lightning Simulation, Lightning Interactive - National Geographic
Make Lightning Strike at National Geographic.
MSN video
Lightning Up Close & Personal
National Geographic Channel - World Adventure TV Schedule, Programs, Video, Wallpapers, Pictures & Interactives
The National Geographic Channel is television at its most gripping. From international mysteries to heart-pounding adventures, you won't want to miss a moment. The National Geographic Channel. Dare to explore.

Reader Feedback 

zanyanna

Cool!

Posted June 10, 2008

KevinBa

Great Lens on lightning too!

Posted June 08, 2008

spirituality

Lovely. You may like my Beautiful stumbleupon blogs as well :)

Posted June 05, 2008

flowergardener

I love photos of lightning, and you've got some great ones here! Thank you! (I even have a photo of lightning as a screensaver on my computer) :)

Posted May 16, 2008

LeslieBrenner

Lightning is beautiful and there are different kinds: sprites, blue jets, elves. It's fascinating. Great lens.

Posted May 05, 2008

 
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