Re: How do clouds get electric charge?

From: Ken S. Tucker (dynamics_at_vianet.on.ca)
Date: 09/20/04


Date: 20 Sep 2004 14:14:28 -0700

Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<Q%A3d.224191$Fg5.203752@attbi_s53>...
> http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/ligseq.html
> http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/lightning.html
> http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/lightning2.html

Thanks Sam,
  I've noticed, following a lighning discharge the rain
increases in intensity. I theorize the droplets are held
in electrostatic suspension. Then the lightning discharge
equalizes the electrostatic field and the droplets fall
down.
   Anyone else notice anything like that?
Ken



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