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 Cause of  lightning

2

 Where lightning hits

3

 Hurricane spin

4

 How hot is lightning

5

 Jupiter's surface

6

 How rainbows form

7

 Ball lightning

8

 Hurricane energy

9

 Lightning hits a tornado
10  Orange night skies

Current Column:  A saintly light

st elmo's fire

Why would a lightning-struck tree glow after being hit? It is not on fire and does not give off heat, but glows. 

It was a dark and stormy night.  Chris emails he was walking in the woods  "a little after a thunderstorm" when he noticed the tree.  The tree, shattered by an earlier lightning stroke, stabbed the night like a broken pike.  An eerie glow extended ... Click to continue

 

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What Who Where
Editors Lanney Atchley Electrical engineer, New Mexico
  Mike Snider Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Emily Johnson Happy News, Dallas, Texas
  Jeff Radford Corrales Comment, Corrales, New Mexico
Weather, oceans, Shelley Dawiki Woods Hole Oceanography Institution
 or Robert Detrick Woods Hole Oceanography Institution
  Roger Edwards NOAA's Storm Prediction Center
atmosphere Bart Geerts Atmos sciences U of Wyoming
  Susan Humphris Woods Hole Oceanography Institution
  John Jensenius NOAA, National Weather Service

 

Paul Knauth Arizona State, geology
  Laurence P. Madin Woods Hole Oceanography Institution
  Sharanya J. Majumdar University of Miami
  Don Neff NOAA, CMDL
  Peter Pilewskie University of Colorado, Boulder
  Jesús Pineda Woods Hole Oceanography Institution
  Diane Poehls Woods Hole Oceanography Institution
  Russell Schnell NOAA, Climate & Diagnostics Lab
  David Schultz National Severe Storm Laboratory
  David Schwab NOAA
  John Stegeman Woods Hole Oceanography Institution
  Gabor Vali Ice and atmos-physics, University of Wyoming
  Henry Vanderploeg NOAA
Physics Neil Ashby University of Colorado
  Craig Bohren Penn State University, meteorology
  Charles Braun Dartmouth University
  Hugh Christian NASA's satellite lightning detection
  Paul Doherty Exploratorium Teacher Inst
  Alistair Fraser Penn State University, meteorology
  Colin Freeman University of Canterbury in New Zealand
  Tom Henderson Glenwood school physics teacher
  Paul Hewitt Author, physicist
  Wilson Ho University of California, Irvine
  Michael Marder University of Texas
Physics Roger E. Miller University of North Carolina
  Rod Nave Physics and astronomy, Georgia State University
  Steven Pollock University of Colorado, Boulder
  Sanjay Rebello Kansas State University
  Sergei Smirnov New Mexico State University
  William Winn Irving Langmuir Lab for Atmospheric Research  NM
Sky John Abrahamson University of Canterbury, New Zealand
 watching Hugh Christian NASA's satellite lightning detection
  Sergei Emelin http://balllightning.narod.ru/ Russia
  Steve Goodman NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate
  Robert Greenler University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  Richard Kithil National Lightning Safety Institute
  E. Philip Krider University of Arizona
  Bob McDavitt MetService Weather  Australia
  Keith Heidorn The Weather Doctor
  Victor Pasko Pennsylvania State University
  Alexei Pirozerski http://balllightning.narod.ru/ Russia

 

 

 

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