Another thought, or data point:
People think of lightning striking under the storm, but I've seen lightning
bolts come out of a cloud horizontally. One was a straight line 7 or 8
miles long that then curved down and struck the ground nearly 10 miles from
the storm.
I remember it well as the pilot who normally stayed on the ground in that
kind of weather had just asked me how close we dared get to that storm. It
was as if nature heard and answered for me. <:-))
Based on such a large distance it's difficult to imagine the charge
differential that far away exceeding the differential between the cloud and
the ground under it. Particularly with all the water falling out of the
cloud.
Of course there is far more involved than just the charge differential where
lightning is involved. I do have to work though to imagine the feeders and
ionization following a path like that.
Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
G-III and a long way to go.
www.rogerhalstead.com
> While the bulk charge separation is "DC" in the cloud, the generator of
> the "DC" is friction between particles within the cloud... This rubbing
> of aerosol and droplet particles causing electron transfer, generates
> static noise as each electron jumps off one particle and onto another..
> A CB cloud is a 20,000 to 50,000 foot tower, generating static
> electricity even before there is a visible strike..
>
> Denny - K8DO
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