- Each second there are 50 to 100 Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strikes to
the Earth world-wide.
- Most lightning strikes average 2 to 3 miles long and carry a current
of 10000 Amps at 100 million Volts.
Positive Giant" is a lightning strike that hits the ground up to
20 miles away from the storm. Because it seems to strike from a clear sky
it is known as "A Bolt From The Blue". These "Positive Giant" flashes
strike between the storm's top "anvil" and the Earth and carry several
times the destructive energy of a "regular" lightning strike.
- Thunder can only be heard about 12 miles away under good quiet
outdoor conditions.
- Daytime lightning is difficult or impossible to see under local sun
and/or hazy conditions. Night-time "heat lightning" can be seen up to
100 miles away (depending on "seeing" conditions).
Lightning Crawlers" or "Spider Lightning" can travel over 35 miles
as it "crawls" across the bottoms or through squall line "frontal"
clouds. This rare type of lightning is very beautiful as it zaps from
"horizon-to-horizon". However it can turn deadly if it happens to strike
the ground at the end of its super long path! {Lightning Crawlers from
The Blue!}
- Radar has detected Lightning "Crawlers" traveling at high altitudes
(15000 ft to 20000 ft) as they zap from cloud-to-cloud.
- Lightning "Crawlers" over seventy five (75) miles long have been
observed by Radar!
temperature
of a typical lightning bolt is hotter than the
surface of the Sun!
How big around is a typical lightning bolt? Answer: About the size
of a Quarter to Half-Dollar! Lightning looks so much wider than it
really is just because its light is so bright!
Lightning Strikes create powerful radio waves in the frequency range
of 3 KHz (audio, VLF) through 10 MHz (shortwave radio). The VLF (3000 Hz
to 30000 Hz) "lightning signatures" can travel around the world,
allowing monitoring of world-wide lightning. The shortwave "lightning
signatures can travel half-way around the Earth (the night-time side of
the Earth). The best region to listen for distant shortwave lightning
signatures is from 2 MHz through 7 MHz. After 3 AM local time you can
listen to 3 MHz and hear the beautiful dispersion-ringing of the static
as it bounces back-and-forth between the earth and ionosphere. It can at
times sound like hundreds of tiny bells ringing at once!
lightning is a newly-discovered type of lightning that
zaps between the 40 mile span between the tops of severe storm clouds to
the lower ionosphere "D" layer. Red Sprite Lightning looks like a giant
"blood-red"-colored jellyfish having light-blue tentacles. Red Sprite
Lightning creates extremely powerful radio emissions from 1000 Hz
through VHF.
- Red Sprite Lightning has been associated with very powerful
"Atmospheric Gamma Ray Bursts"
Nuclear Radiation from Lightning Strikes!
UHF Television Signals easily reflect the electrical path ways that
lightning creates! Tune your hand-held scanner (or TV) to the sound
carrier frequency of a 200 to 300 mile distant UHF TV station in the
range of CH 14 to CH 21 (you should NOT be able to receive the station
at all under normal weather conditions!) When lightning flashes,
sometimes you will hear about 1/4 second of the TV station's sound! We
discovered this during an experiment by tuning a hand-held scanner to
475.750 MH zz which is the sound carrier for UHF TV Channel 14 (normally "dead" here).
We heard TV "sound blips" instead of the UHF lightning signatures we
were looking for!
Do not experiment when lightning is nearby!
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