The Arkansas Weather Hawk's Blog

        Okay Guys,  so remember Yesterday I talked about the Birth of Lightning. Stepped Leaders, and Upward Streamers. I talked about what has to happen before a Bolt of Lightning to happen. Now as for a Lightning Strike itself. How does That Process Work? Well The entire Stepped Leader Process happen. Now once the Stepped Leader and Upward Streamer actually meet, In which they generally tend to meet about 30-40 meters above the Ground,  I call this the "Point Of Contact" see Below Now once this Point of Contact is established, at this point there is a clear link between the cloud and the ground (Electric Wise)  this is a clear Path for the Lightning Strike to take through the air. So after this point there is what meteorologist call a "Return Stroke". See the Negative Charges have already dispersed from within the Cloud base through the Stepped Leader Process. Remember they couldn't handle all that charge. So Now at this point, the Build Up of Positive

             Okay everybody as stated last Night in my Facebook and Twitter Update I said that I was doing a 4 day special on Lightning Awareness. To kick everything off, I'll begin with the birth of lightning. How it all begins. Make sense right?      So first things first, how it all starts. Raindrops  within a Thunderstorm cloud collide together,  clump together, and fly past each other at high speeds due to the winds up there. All of this movement creates a negative charge with the cloud itself. The positive Charges go to the very top of the cloud because there are positive charges on the ground. And the positives within the cloud wants nothing to do with that. So they run to the very to and the negative charges sink to the bottom like hot water in the tub. Now as the negative charges at the bottom of the cloud build up positive ions on the ground start to build. As the positive charges on the ground build they tend to attract to that negative charge at the bottom of the clou

To say the least.  It's Going to Rain Like Hell over the next Day and a half to two days. I will have a Full Update about it first thing in the morning! #IPromise #ARWX