Directory of Lightning Resources

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Lightning is a electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. It happens so fast, and it's so hot that it produces a shock wave, which you hear as thunder.

Resources in This Category

• A Lightning Primer from the GHCC

  http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/primer/
  Contains research on different types of lightning.

• Human Voltage: What Happens When People and Lightning Converge

  http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/essd18jun99_1/
  Scientists discuss the statistics, biology, and safety of when lightning strikes people.

• Kidstorm: Lightning

  http://skydiary.com/kids/lightning.html
  How lightning happens, and lightning safety.

• Lightning

  http://www.chaseday.com/lightning.htm
  Images of lightning strikes and thunderstorms with lightning

• Lightning!

  http://www.mos.org/live-presentations/lightning
  Short quiz to see how much you know about lightning.

• Lightning: Just for Kids

  http://www.ucar.edu/communications/infopack/lightning/kids.html
  Explains how lightning works, how much lightning there is and that it's dangerous.

• Lightning: The Shocking Story

  http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/lightning-profile.html
  Learn about the science and the stories behind the bolts that strike our Earth a hundred times every second.

• National Lightning Safety Institute

  http://www.lightningsafety.com/
  Education, and research services relating to lightning hazard mitigation.

• Previous Photos Index

  http://strikeone.com.au/special/special.htm
  Photos of lightning.

• Weather Wiz Kids: Lightning

  http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-lightning.htm
  Has safe experiments to learn about lightning, what causes lightning, and how it's related to static electricity.

• Web Weather for Kids - Lightning

  http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/lightning.html
  Information about how lightning forms, safety tips, a story about ball lightning and an experiment to calculate how far away a storm is.

• Wikipedia: Lightning

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning
  Learn about research and different types of lightning.

 

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