Thunderstorms and Lightning

If we are talking about discharge through a gas such as the atmosphere, this is a breakdown in the normally insulating gas due to ionisation of the gas molecules and hence conduction of current, the discharge will cause visible light to be emitted. This is lightning in nature.

Cumulonimbus clouds.

As a simple rule of thumb, sound travels at 1 mile every 5 seconds.

So, in 4 seconds, it has travelled 4/5 of a mile.

To be exact, it depends on the density of the air, which is determined by the altitude above sea level, the temperature of the air, and the relative humidty of the air (also know as the density altitude, a term used by pilots).

Stay inside
when outside, get away from any water or anything ells that conducts electricity (if your up in the mountains, there's mostly grass, GET OFF OF THE GRASS!) if your up in the mountains, try to be on dirt in an open Field, if your with a large group, spread out as much as possible.

Priests study at a theological college A THEOLOGIAN Priests/ministers study at a seminary. Members of all faiths can study theology and religion at a Divinity School, which is not exclusively Christian.

I believe you mean "Why doesn't rubber conduct electricity"

Conductors share a property in that they have "loose" electrons where the electrons can move from one atom to the next. That's what electrical current is, the movement of electrons in a conductor. Rubber doesn't have these "loose" electrons and therefore will not conduct electricity. These materials are called insulators.

Tall structures are more likely to be struck by lightning because they are closer to the clouds where the lightning originates, and tall structures must have a suitable foundation that goes deep into the ground. Lightning needs a 'path to ground' to occur (although lightning will jump from cloud-to-cloud under certain conditions).

Try to stay indoors, in a nice, sturdy building. If the storm produces tornadoes, go indoors immediately and find a basement. If one isn't available, go into a small room, such as a closet, away from windows.

Unlike chasing tornadoes, to chase a hurricane you actually have to go in to it as the storm is hundreds of miles wide. If you intercept a hurricane there is no way of avoiding dangerous winds. By contrast, most storm chasers are usually able to maintain a safe distance from a tornado while chasing, and close encounters are not very common. Similarly, in a thunderstorm it can be possible to avoid the most dangerous parts.

Hail can be an extremely destructive natural force. In moderate sizes it can destroy fields full of crops and cause considerable economic harm. Larger hailstones can wreck cars and break their windshields and injure people foolish enough to go out in it.

Ways to avoid being struck by lightning are:

*stay inside!!!

If outside:

* stay away from metals

*stay away from trees, exceptionally high ones

*stay in a wide area away from high things and stay low yourself

Also, lightning doesn't ever really touch you, the electricity in your body goes up and meets the lighting before it is close to your head. But lightning can still affect you and kill you, so try to be safe.

Hail forms in thunderstorms (cumulonimbus clouds) when large updrafts carry water droplets high into the atmosphere where the air is much colder. The water freezes into ice and falls, only to be carried back up again by another updraft, where another layer of ice accumulates on the outside. After numerous trips, gaining more and more layers, the hailstone is too heavy to be lifted aloft by the updrafts, and falls to the ground.

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Say Bye Bury It Than Sit On It Than Dig It Up Last Throw It At The Wall

yes, rarely though. lol I lived in California and believe me thunderstorms are not as rare as you might think. they have a rainy season in february and march and mud slides and loss of life due to these thunder storms are a normal occurrence.

Lightning is a massive electrostatic discharge caused by unbalanced electric chargesin the atmosphere, and resulting in a strike, from a cloud to itself, a cloud to a cloud or a cloud to ground, and accompanied by the loud sound of thunder.

Lightning does not go from the sky to the ground. It goes from the ground up.

from the sci tech encyclopedia

The vast majority of lightning flashes between cloud and ground begin in the cloud with a process known as the preliminary breakdown. After perhaps a tenth of a second, a highly branched discharge, the stepped leader, appears below the cloud base and propagates downward in a succession of intermittent steps. The leader channel is usually negatively charged, and when the tip of a branch of the leader gets to within about 30 m (100 ft) of the ground, the electric field becomes large enough to initiate one or more upward connecting discharges, usually from the tallest objects in the local vicinity of the leader. When contact occurs between an upward discharge and the stepped leader, the first return stroke begins. The return stroke is basically a very intense, positive wave of ionization that propagates up the partially ionized leader channel into the cloud at a speed close to the speed of light. After a pause of 40-80 milliseconds, another leader, the dart leader , forms in the cloud and propagates down the previous return-stroke channel without stepping. When the dart leader makes contact with the ground, a subsequent return stroke propagates back to the cloud. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lasts 0.2-0.3 s and contains about four return strokes; lightning often appears to flicker because the human eye is capable of just resolving the interval between these strokes.

Lightening rods are certainly used today; in metropolitan areas, most houses are surrounded by higher buildings, poles, trees and other points, and this don't have much risk. But in rural areas, on high landmarks and other structures (even buildings atop the Great Wall of China), they are still used. DOODLE!

When it comes to lightning anything is possible, but it is highly unlikely. Lightning can for sure strike a car but as long as you are not touching any metal part of the car you are safe. Lighting will take the shortest path to ground and that is always metal not glass. I have never heard of lightning even breaking a sunroof. But with mother nature and the power of a lightning bolt anything is possible.

Quantum physics is a discipline that has experimented with light to determine if it is a particle or a wave, and the answer turns out to be... "yes".

Depending on how the experiment is set up, light is definitely a wave... and it is definitely a particle, and there are even more characteristics that make light into an enigma.

Find a good book on quantum physics that is written to your level if you want to learn more. It's a fascinating subject.

No. An updraft (updraught) is an upward moving current of warm air.

It depends on the tornado. Low plants such as grasses stand the best chance, but in a strong enough tornado, even the grass can be torn from the ground. Trees are often uprooted or snapped, but even a tree with a snapped trunk can recover. In a weak tornado some trees may escape with broken limbs.