A Bolt Out of the Blue. Joseph R. Dwyer.
by Dwyer, Joseph R; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 12Science. Publisher: Scientific American, 2005ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Electric fields | Lightning | Lightning -- Research | Radiation | Thunderstorms | X-raysDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Lightning is a particularly unsettling product of bad weather. It causes more deaths and injuries in the U.S. than either hurricanes or tornadoes do, and it strikes without warning, sometimes with nothing but blue sky overhead. In central Florida, where I [author Joseph R. Dwyer] live, thunderstorms are a daily occurrence during the summer, and so, ironically, people in the Sunshine State often spend their afternoons indoors to avoid the risk of death from the sky." (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN) This article discusses how x-rays are used to study lightning and stresses that there is still much scientists do not understand about this phenomenon.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: A Bolt Out of the Blue, May 2005; pp. 64-71.
"Lightning is a particularly unsettling product of bad weather. It causes more deaths and injuries in the U.S. than either hurricanes or tornadoes do, and it strikes without warning, sometimes with nothing but blue sky overhead. In central Florida, where I [author Joseph R. Dwyer] live, thunderstorms are a daily occurrence during the summer, and so, ironically, people in the Sunshine State often spend their afternoons indoors to avoid the risk of death from the sky." (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN) This article discusses how x-rays are used to study lightning and stresses that there is still much scientists do not understand about this phenomenon.
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