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Lightning Safety: Lightning Prediction System
By Chris Vagasky The last full week of June is National Lightning Safety Awareness Week in the United States. Recent...
“Megaflashes”: How Long Can a Lightning Discharge Be?
Even though Earth’s atmosphere is laced by more than a billion brilliant discharges of electricity every year, lightning itself never...
"Megaflashes": How Long Can a Lightning Discharge Be?
Even though Earth’s atmosphere is laced by more than a billion brilliant discharges of electricity every year, lightning itself never...
From AMS Journals
The New Capital of Lightning
Imagine being awoken late one night by the near constant glow of lightning overhead—often flickering silently but occasionally rumbling deeply...
A Promising Trend in Lightning Safety
Since 2006, lightning has been the third most common cause of storm-related deaths in the United States, behind only floods...
Exposing Air Travel Radiation Concerns
The Space Weather Symposium at the AMS Annual Meeting once again will discuss the radiation exposure that airplane passengers get...
