On Tuesday, 17 May 2005 06:01, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > For those who are currious: > > > > http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/fgfs-screen-016.jpg > > > > Erik > > It looks good, although usually there's only one bolt. > > Ampere
Usually there is one main main strike called the "leader" and multiple "step leaders" connected to the leader that made it to the target. The step leaders are however not as visible as the leader and may go unnoticed. Only 20% of strikes consist of one stroke (pulse along the same path) while the other 80% are two or more strokes. The mean stroke occurrence is five to six and the maximum has been measured at twenty-five. Strikes can last up to 1 second in duration and I saw such a lighting storm a couple of months ago. It's amazing stuff - it even vaporized a 10 meter section of my fencing. (10 meters of 2.5mm high tensile fencing wire vanished) Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
