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- USA Today - Lightning information index - Lightning information index. Lightning creates thunder. By definition, a thunderstorm has thunder, which means it has lightning even if you don`t see it. How lightning reaches the ground.
- Lightning - Images of lightning strikes and thunderstorms with lightning
- Lightning - Images of lightning strikes and thunderstorms with lightning
- Boltek Lightning Detectors - Boltek StormTracker and LD-250 Lightning Detectors display lightning strikes live on a map of your area. Can detect and track thunderstorms up to 300 miles away, right from your personal computer.
- The Lightning Show - Animated thunder and lightning page showing a thunderstorm at night.
- Tampa Bay, Clearwater Beach Lightning Detection Network - Lightning detection network covering Tampa Bay, Clearwater Beach, Belleair and St. Petersburg Florida. Realtime lightning detection showing lightning strikes. Using Boltek and Stormvue to display lightning strikes.
- Lightning Protection Institute - The Lightning Protection Institute is a nationwide not-for-profit organization and provides information on lightning safety and lightning protection systems for commercial and residential structures.
- Bright Light Fright: Lightning - Look at the history of lightning, lightning in science and its detection.
- Lightning Links - Links to relevant news articles and other sites on lightning, photos, lightning variations, fulgerites, lightning victims, books, and research sites. An extensive and useful compilation.
- National Lightning Safety Institute (NLSI) - National Lightning Safety Institute performs Consulting, Education, and Research relating to lightning hazard mitigation. Lightning exhibits random and unpredictable behavior. By adopting a proactive defense, safety levels can be improved and harmful consequences from the effects of lightning can be reduced.
Wikipedia Articles
- Dry lightning - Dry lightning is a term which is used in the United States to refer to thunderstorms which produce no rain at the surface. The term is a technical misnomer since lightning is obviously not wet in any instance, and also because the thunderstorms which are so named actually do produce precipitation, although it does not reach the ground.
- Lightning safety - Thunderstorms are the primary source of lightning. Because people have been struck many miles away from a storm, seeking immediate and effective shelter when thunderstorms approach is an important part of lightning safety.
- Heat lightning - Heat lightning is a misnomer for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not have accompanying sounds of thunder. Heat lightning was named because it often occurs on hot summer nights, and to distinguish it from lightning with accompanying thunder.
- Lightning detector - A lightning detector is a device that detects lightning produced by thunderstorms. There are three primary types of detectors: ground-based systems using multiple antennas, mobile systems using a direction and a sense antenna in the same location (often aboard an aircraft), and space-based systems.
- Lightning - Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. A bolt of lightning can travel at a speed of , and can reach temperatures approaching , hot enough to fuse soil or sand into glass channels.