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Severe Weather Primer: Lightning Feature Summary

Type:
Physics in Your World
Title:
NSSL Lightning Information: Q&A about Lightning
Description:
What is lightning? What causes thunder? This site from the NOAA answers these basic questions and more.

For more details on rare varieties of lightning, read these press releases about ball lightning and upward lightning.
Image:
image credit: <a href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/" target="_blank">NOAA Photo Library</a>, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/<a href="http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/" target="_blank">National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)</a>; <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2006/hurricane_lightning.html" target="_blank">image source</a>; <a href="http://www.compadre.org/Informal/images/features/NASA-lightning-8-26-09-larg.jpg" target="_blank">larger image</a>
image credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL); image source; larger image
Image URL:
http://www.compadre.org/Informal/images/features/NASA-lightning-8-26-09-larg.jpg
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September 1, 2009 - September 16, 2009