Friday, July 19, 2013

An Interesting tidbit about lightning

Lightning is something that is amazing. It mesmerizes us, scares us, amazes us, and on a rare occasion it hits us or something close to us. Then there is cloud to cloud lightning, cloud to ground, and ground to cloud lightning. But there is an interesting fact that science has learned those in the weather community. They have in turn forwarded the knowledge to us.

When lightning hits the ground does it always start a fire? If not why not? For a fact not all lightning starts fire. How so? It is because there is positive and negative lightning. The positive lightning is from cloud to ground. This kind of lightning does start fires. On the flip side the ground to cloud lightning is negative and therefore does not start fires.

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