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- Subject: Re: Lightning
- Message-ID: <1992Jul19.130838.18963@phx.mcd.mot.com>
- From: hbg6@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch)
- Date: 19 Jul 92 13:08:38 GMT
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- <1240@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> petro@server.uwindsor.ca (PETRO DAVID) writes:
- >Does lightning originate from the ground or the sky?
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- All three. :-)
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- Some bolts originate in the clouds, some originate on the ground and
- some meet in the middle some place. The polarity is detectable at
- great distances given suitable electronic equipment. I do not know
- what physical properties of the storm would cause it to go one way
- or the other.
-
- John
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