2007-01-23 01:07:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
when the cold and heated air collide in the atmosphere, it
causes lightning follwed by thunder
2007-01-23 01:11:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightning is an electric discharge from a region of high electric potential to one of low electric potential.
In a cumulus cloud, vertical convection of ice particles is thought to transfer electric charge, causing parts of the cloud to take on an electric charge, either positive or negative. If the charge difference becomes too large, lightning will occur within the cloud which equalizes the charge difference. Lightning can also occur from cloud to ground.
2007-01-23 09:15:55 · answer #2 · answered by . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightening is just like regular electricity. Negative and positive ions in the atmosphere collide and set off an electrical discharge, also known as lightening. As for the thunder, that is the sound that lightening makes "cutting" through the sky.
2007-01-23 10:40:09 · answer #3 · answered by protruckdriver71 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friction between the electricity in the sky.
2007-01-23 11:07:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when cold and hot air collide,
2007-01-23 09:50:18 · answer #5 · answered by connie sue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the debil beatin his wife
2007-01-23 09:34:02 · answer #6 · answered by Bubba Gump 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋