Thunderstorms and Lightning

West to east.

West to east.

I would say west to east or left to right

Actually,clouds form when water evaporates from rivers, ponds, oceans, and lakes. The air containing this evaporated water vapor rises and expands at higher altitudes here the air pressure is lower. The expanding air cools, and as this cooling occurs, the water vapor condenses (changes) from a vapor to a liquid. Many tiny water droplets form and a cloud is born. Conditions have to be just right for clouds to form. Nature needs tiny droplets of water, something for the droplets to cling to (particles like dust, salt, or smoke) and the right temperature. A variety of cloud types form depending upon their height, air movement, and the amount of water vapor and condensation particles. The basic cloud types include the following: * Stratus (spread out or layered). These clouds are low to the ground and layered. * Fog is very close to the ground. * Stratus clouds may predict rain. * Cirrus (curly, wispy). These clouds are the highest and are made of ice crystals. They may predict a change in weather like a coming storm. * Cumulus (heaped or piled up). Cumulus clouds are puffy with flat bottoms. * Cumulus clouds usually predict clear weather. There are many types of clouds in the sky. Did you know that some of them are man-made? "Contrails" are the long, thin clouds that are left by airplanes as they fly past. Contrails is short for "condensation trails." They are clouds that planes make. Contrails are man-made. They have a cousin that almost everyone has seen. Have you ever gone outside on a cold day? Have you seen a cloud come out of your mouth? That little cloud is made by water vapor that is usually invisible. In cold weather, the vapor condenses into a cloud you can see. Contrails are made the same way. A plane has an engine. The exhaust from the engine has water vapor. Temperatures are colder at higher altitudes. Water vapor condenses into ice crystals. This leaves the white lines you see behind planes. Sometimes, there is water in the air around the plane. This can make the contrail even bigger. If there is not a lot of water in the air, the contrails will not last long. When there is a lot of water in the air, the contrails will last longer. Ice from the plane will join water in the atmosphere. This will make a long contrail behind the airplane. It will stay in the sky long after the plane is gone. They can last for hours! They can even grow. They can get as big as football fields. They can spread until they turn into cirrus clouds. Contrails are made of water vapor. They do not hurt humans. NASA is trying to see if contrails may hurt the environment. Contrails are man-made clouds. They add to the Earth's cloud coverage. They might change temperatures and climates. We see a lot of contrails wherever there is heavy plane traffic. Air traffic keeps getting busier. Scientists are looking into what contrails might do. NASA might find that contrails hurt the environment. NASA wants to stop this from happening. One way would be to have planes fly away from problem areas. Another way is to make better engines. NASA is working with partners to make better jet engines. Someday, you might not even see contrails behind planes!

Rain from thunderstorms is an important source of water for life in many areas. Many areas on Earth would be much drier without thunderstorms. Heavy thunderstorm rain can also cause floods, which can damage habitats and alter the courses of streams and rivers. Lightning can start fires which can be destructive, but also play an important role in some forests and grasslands.

Davidmt1:Lightning is never the same height. This is because some clouds can be lower than others. Also there are two type of lighning. There is cloud to ground lightning and cloud to cloud lightning.

A nor'easter (also known as a northeaster) is a macro-scale storm whose winds come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada. More specifically, it describes a low pressure area whose center of rotation is just off the coast and whose leading winds in the left forward quadrant rotate onto land from the northeast. The precipitation pattern is similar to other extratropical storms. They also can cause coastal flooding, coastal erosion and gale force winds. Nor'easters are usually formed by an area of vorticity associated with an upper level disturbance or from a kink in a frontal surface that causes a surface low pressure area to develop. Such storms often move slowly in their latter, frequently intense, mature stage. Until the nor'easter passes, thick dark clouds often block out the sun. During a single storm, the precipitation can range from a torrential downpour to a fine mist. Low temperatures and wind gusts of up to 90 miles per hour are also associated with a nor'easter. On very rare occasions, such as the North American blizzard of 2006, and a nor'easter in 1979, the center of the storm can even take on the circular shape more typical of a hurricane and have a small eye. The northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada, particularly the New England coast and Nova Scotia see nor'easters each year, most often in the winter and early spring, but also sometimes during the autumn. These storms can leave inches of rain or several feet of snow on the region, and sometimes last for several days. The Atlantic coast, from northern Georgia northward up the coast, can suffer high winds, pounding surf and extreme rains during these storms. Nor'easters cause a significant amount of severe beach erosion in these areas, as well as flooding in the associated low-lying areas. Beach residents in these areas may actually fear the repeated depredations of Nor'easters over those of hurricanes, because they happen more frequently, and cause substantial damage to beachfront property and their dunes.

the most powerful lightning bolt contains about 950 billion volts but it wouldn't be anything natural it would be the bolt that haarp discharges from the ionosphere of the earth vaporizing anything and anyone that sees it, and also everything around it for thousands of miles.

Many victims of lightning strikes die from burns and heart failure, and non-fatal strikes have been known to cause moderate to severe damage to the central nervous system. Many victims with neural damage report severe and intractable pain and neuropathy for the rest of their lives.

It was a gift from Poseidon. Poseidon gave it to Chiron to give to Percy once he came to Camp Half Blood.

Also, Zoe gave it to Percy in his dream in The Titan's Curse.

Actually, the dream was scene from the past of when Zoe went against her family to help a demigod (Hercules).

India experiences nearly 20 million lightning strikes per year, making it one of the most lightning-prone countries in the world. These strikes can cause significant damage and fatalities, especially during the monsoon season.

No, lightning cannot stop a tornado. Lightning and tornadoes are independent weather phenomena. Lightning can occur during thunderstorms, which are often associated with tornadoes, but it does not have the ability to influence or stop a tornado.

i think the trees and the ground may have a neutral charge bfore clouds form then they become positively charged when negative charges form at the lower portion of the cloud.

Insurance companies seem to think it's likely, but that's not saying a whole lot. I swim in an indoor pool that is in the LOWER level of an athletic center, and when the front desk hears thunder . . . out we go for 30 minutes! Stupid.

I have done extensive research on the web to find an answer to the question of getting hit by lightning while swimming. In more than 450 cases I have looked at I have found only two in which one person, who was among others swimming in the ocean, was struck by lightning, and the other was a scuba diver, and the lightning actually struck his tank while he was coming out of the water. The first guy was surfing, so you might even say he was not technically in the water, but on it (perhaps making him more of a target?).

I have also found that while people do not seem to be struck by lightning in the water, many, many are struck just after getting out of the water to take shelter. I've yet to find one in which people are struck by lightning in a swimming pool--recently or any time in the "ignorant" past when people "didn't know better" to get out of the water when thunder was heard.

The whole idea of a pool-full of people being killed or electrocuted from a single strike in the water is ridiculous. I know it sounds right, though, since water is a good conductor of electricity. I have even read some pretty stupid remarks by "experts" that claim when lightning hits the water it disperses throughout the entire body of water. But this is simply not true, and research shows it not to be the case (hey, where are the thousands of dead fish that should wash up on shore after a stormy afternoon at the beach?). No "expert" can actually tell the truth about this because it is "conventional knowledge" that you are not to be in the water when thunder is heard--and insurance companies wouldn't like it.

How about this one: I found one story in which a man was killed by a lightning strike while sitting in his boat (a common place for people to get struck) while his two friends, who were swimming next to the boat, looked on, completely unharmed!

Most people who are struck were hit while standing out in the open, wet with rain, not under cover. And what happens when you get out of a pool? Hmmm, suddenly you are a lightning target standing in the open!

I've found many stories of people getting struck on a clear day, in their homes, in cars, laying on the ground, under trees, standing next to swimming pools--in short, all the places you are advised to go to take shelter. And only two of people being struck in the water (ocean, to be specific). There are probably more out there, but good luck trying to find them.

Perhaps, if proper research was conducted, it might actually turn out that we should all be diving into water when we hear thunder!

Hail occurs when thunderstorms get real cold, and then all that water in the clouds gets more colder. The more it gets colder, it freezes, then turns into hail. Sometimes, hail rain can be big as a golf ball or a handball!

Low frequency sounds (20-1,000 Hz) can travel long distances in seawater due to their ability to penetrate further and experience less attenuation compared to higher frequency sounds. This makes them detectable over greater distances in the ocean.

When we are boats, we know that one of the possibilities that can arise is that a storm appears with strong winds that make our tranquility end. It does not mean that we could necessarily be in a dangerous situation, but rather that navigation could become a bit shaky, and anyone would be concerned about it.

The boats have state-of-the-art equipment with the technical capacity to spot these bad weather changes and anticipate maneuvers aimed at reducing the impact they may cause.

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Normal faults, where the hanging wall drops down relative to the footwall, typically do not generate tsunamis. These faults are more common in areas of active stretching of the Earth's crust and are not usually associated with the sudden vertical displacement of large volumes of water required to trigger a tsunami.

Warm and cold fronts equal Rain, but in the cold-front case this could just as easily equal Snow.

Frequency and distance are directly proportional the higher the frequency the more distance for the sound to dissipate th lower the frequency th shorter the distance for the sound to dissipate

The energy source you mean must be coal, but you seem to have two questions mixed together

The fiery Dragon is Hades God of Underworld or the seven headed monster is Hydra