Someone once told me lightning comes from the ground? I don't understand.
2007-08-02 18:05:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Simply put, lightening is result of charged air masses attempting to equalize their charge with either the earth or other air masses.
Electricity is composed of electrons... electrons flow from negative to positive. If the air is more positively charged then the earth the static electricity will discharge from earth to cloud. Or if its more negatively charged it will flow from cloud to earth.
2007-08-02 18:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by bluecuriosity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When lightning hits the ground it does come from the ground. Lightning begins as an invisible line called the step leader. this area of fast, zig zag movement of electrons begin to draw up protons. As the protons draw up and meets with the electrons a lightning strike can form.
2007-08-03 01:27:24 · answer #2 · answered by Invisble 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Glov is wrong, lightning can hit the ground then return to the sky and back again. It does this frequently, it has been recorded with high speed cameras doing this.
2007-08-03 03:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by redd headd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
streamers come up from the tallest object around an area and the electrical charge in the clouds run down the streamer and lightning is produced(when the ground is negative and the cloud is positive you have lightning).
2007-08-04 22:00:55 · answer #4 · answered by book writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lightning is very important bacause it produces the nitrates and nitrites from the gas nitrogen. nitrates is needed by plants. the lightning does not come from the ground but it gives moist to the groun or soil.
2007-08-03 01:27:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋