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Thunderstorms & Lightning
Lightning - San Francisco's Exploratorium brings you the story of lightning, chock-full of trivia that will amaze you. Did you know that a lightning bolt has enough energy to lift a 2,000-pound car 62 miles high into the air? Or that a lightning flash jumps from the ground up to a cloud at 61,000 miles per second? You won't want to miss the story of Roy "Dooms" Sullivan, a former park ranger who holds the world's record for being zapped by lightning more than any other person: seven times. Now that's an electrifying personality!
Lightning @ Nationalgeographic.com - brings you the whole shocking story of how lightning is striking the earth about 100 times a second. Read the electrifying tale of what it's like to be hit by lightning, told by people who have survived the encounter. And, when you've found out everything you've always wanted to know about lightning, don't bolt --take a quiz and win the hottest prize in cyberspace.
NASA Space Shuttle Lightning Observations - Everybody's seen lightning from down here on Earth, but not many people get to see it from outer space. Lightning bounces around in some very weird ways out there. For a long time, pilots had been saying that they saw lightning that started at the tops of clouds and shot out into space, but nobody believed them. In 1989, space shuttle astronauts helped solve this mystery when they took pictures of this "vertical lightning." Check out their pictures and movies of some wild storms as seen from space.
Weather Gone Wild - Sometimes the weather gets a little out of hand. Tornadoes, hurricanes, tidal waves, and floods are just a few of the extreme weather situations detailed at this site. Each entry is easy to read, but if you don't understand some of the words, don't worry because there is a glossary. There's a nice tutorial on how to read a weather chart, with an explanation of all those weird symbols used by weather guys and gals. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest Junior competition.
You Can & Thunder - Wow! That was a LOUD storm! You can come out now. Let Beakman and Jax answer your questions about thunder. What's it made of, anyway? Is it hot? Is it cold? If we could see this event, what would it look like? Try these simple experiments to help you learn more about thunder.
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