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We just learned about thunder snow . There is also something interesting called heat lightning . Sometimes when you are out in the eve...

We always think of thunder coming with lightning in a rain storm. But thunder can even happen during snow! One big difference between...

We just learned about the Lightning Rod Another part of lightning storms is Thunder We know that lightning coming down from the sky is...

We just learned about Lightning striking Trees Sometimes when people want to protect buildings from getting hit by lightning, they will ...

We just learned about Lightning Plasma When lightning strikes, it looks for the tallest things around to zap. Trees get hit by lightni...

We just learned about a Lightning - Re-strike Remember that the four types of matter on our planet are solid, liquid, gas and plasma . ...

We just learned that when the lightning electricity zaps down or discharges it's called the Return Stroke . Most of the time when l...

When the lightning leaders attach , the lightning zaps down in something called a discharge , and the discharge is called a return stroke ...

We've learned about lightning downward leaders and upward streamers . When the downward and upward touch together, that's calle...

We've learned about negative charged lightning leaders , and how they are ionized gases going down toward the ground looking to zap so...

We just learned about Cloud to Cloud Lightning When a cloud is all full of energy and ready to zap the ground with some electricity and ...

We learned about cloud to cloud and intra-cloud lightning. The other type of lightning that we all know about is called Cloud to Ground...

When we think of lightning , we usually think of the big bright flashes coming from the cloud. But sometimes lightning doesn't come d...

We just learned about Fog . Lightning is the big flash of light that we see in the sky when some static electricity in a cloud builds up...