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What is thunder/lightning
Severe lightning and its damage.
When does lightning occur and where do they hit the hardest.
How much damage can lightning cause and how can we protect ourselves from them. Also what are the sources for lightning.
Clouds
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What is Thunder?
Thunder is the sound that comes after lightning hits.
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How severe can lightning be?
It depends on where it hits.
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When does lightning occur the most.
Lightning occurs mostly in the summer.
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What is the best option when there is a thunder storm?
To go underground a basement preferably.
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What clouds makes a Thunder storm

Cumulonnimbus Clouds

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How long does it take for thunder to react after the lightning strikes?
Five seconds.
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True or false can lightning make fire which can make total devastation?
True.
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Where should you be during a thunder storm?
You should try to be indoors.
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True or false. Lightning hits tall buildings.
True.
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What is lightning?
Lightning is the effect charged particles reacting static electricity.
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How many people on average does lightning kill a year?
100 people.
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What should you not stand under during a thunder storm?
A tree or a open field.
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True or false. Can thunder storms cause billions of dollars worth of destruction?
True.
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How is lightning made?
Lightning is made when instability in the atmosphere and moisture are combined.
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How much hotter is lightning than the suns surface?
It is nine times hotter than the suns surface.
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List the 5 things that lightning hits the most.
open fields, bodies of water, boats . Farming operating equipment. The last four percent goes towards other things.
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What are the sources for lightning
The sources of power for lightning are charged particles that cause static electricity.
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How is instability made?
The way instability us made is when liquid and ice particles above the freezing level collide.
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How hot is lightning?
Lightning is 90,032 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Why is there not that much thunder storms during the winter?
The reason is because there is not that much instability and moisture in the atmosphere.
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How does the doorknob relate to the lightning?
The same concept forms lightning that causes static electricity when you touch a doorknob, except about a 100 times stronger!