Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
Kyle Cowan
Known as the electric storm, thunderstorms occur all the time. When a thunderstorm starts to occur, the air starts to cool as it rises. Cumulus clouds start to form as water vapor starts to condense. As condensation occurs, heat (latent heat/energy), starts to release from the atmosphere and assists the thunderstorm in becoming created and grow. Soon as the thunderstorm is formed, condensation high in the cloud (now in the form of water droplets or ice) starts to fall to ground and be considered as rain. Thunderstorms can happen anywhere, at any time as long as the weather is right. Thunderstorms are rare in colder regions such as Alaska, North Dakota, New England, and Montana. There also pretty rare along the pacific coast due to the fact that the air near the pacific coast tends to be more dry. The most common region for thunderstorms to occur in the United States of America is down at the Florida coast. Florida can receive around 130 days a year that are filled with thunderstorms. The world can experience up to about 1,800 thunderstorms a day through out almost all nations. Lightning comes with every thunderstorm that occurs, Lightning is a bright flash of electricity produced by a thunderstorm. All thunderstorms produce lightning and are very dangerous. If you hear the sound of thunder, then you are in danger from lightning. Lightning kills and injures more people each year than hurricanes or tornadoes. Lightning is an electric current. Within a thundercloud way up in the sky, many small bits of ice (frozen raindrops) bump into each other as they move around in the air. All of those collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. The positive charges or protons form at the top of the cloud and the negative charges or electrons form at the bottom of the cloud. Since opposites attract, that causes a positive charge to build up on the ground beneath the cloud. Thunder
Kyle Cowan
Known as the electric storm, thunderstorms occur all the time. When a thunderstorm starts to occur, the air starts to cool as it rises. Cumulus clouds start to form as water vapor starts to condense. As condensation occurs, heat (latent heat/energy), starts to release from the atmosphere and assists the thunderstorm in becoming created and grow. Soon as the thunderstorm is formed, condensation high in the cloud (now in the form of water droplets or ice) starts to fall to ground and be considered as rain. Thunderstorms can happen anywhere, at any time as long as the weather is right. Thunderstorms are rare in colder regions such as Alaska, North Dakota, New England, and Montana. There also pretty rare along the pacific coast due to the fact that the air near the pacific coast tends to be more dry. The most common region for thunderstorms to occur in the United States of America is down at the Florida coast. Florida can receive around 130 days a year that are filled with thunderstorms. The world can experience up to about 1,800 thunderstorms a day through out almost all nations. Lightning comes with every thunderstorm that occurs, Lightning is a bright flash of electricity produced by a thunderstorm. All thunderstorms produce lightning and are very dangerous. If you hear the sound of thunder, then you are in danger from lightning. Lightning kills and injures more people each year than hurricanes or tornadoes. Lightning is an electric current. Within a thundercloud way up in the sky, many small bits of ice (frozen raindrops) bump into each other as they move around in the air. All of those collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. The positive charges or protons form at the top of the cloud and the negative charges or electrons form at the bottom of the cloud. Since opposites attract, that causes a positive charge to build up on the ground beneath the cloud. Thunder