Lightning is a electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. It happens so fast, and it's so hot that it produces a shock wave, which you hear as thunder.
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- Lightning: Just for Kids Explains how lightning works, how much lightning there is and that it's dangerous.
- Kidstorm: Lightning How lightning happens, and lightning safety.
- Previous Photos Index Photos of lightning.
- A Lightning Primer from the GHCC Contains research on different types of lightning.
- Wikipedia: Lightning Learn about research and different types of lightning.
- Lightning Images of lightning strikes and thunderstorms with lightning
- National Lightning Safety Institute Education, and research services relating to lightning hazard mitigation.
- Web Weather for Kids - Lightning Information about how lightning forms, safety tips, a story about ball lightning and an experiment to calculate how far away a storm is.
- Lightning: The Shocking Story Learn about the science and the stories behind the bolts that strike our Earth a hundred times every second.
- Weather Wiz Kids: Lightning Has safe experiments to learn about lightning, what causes lightning, and how it's related to static electricity.
- Lightning! Short quiz to see how much you know about lightning.
- Human Voltage: What Happens When People and Lightning Converge Scientists discuss the statistics, biology, and safety of when lightning strikes people.