Re: shocking...

Colin Douthwaite (cfb...@southern.co.nz) wrote:
: Max Erick Busse-Grawitz (bu...@spectrospin.ch) wrote:
: >Bob Pebly wrote:
: >> 
: >> I went out flying at the beach this evening after some thunderstorms
: >> rumbled through the area.

: [...snip...]


: > Just one remark (but I think you already know it): It's exactly 
: > those singularities that attract flashes, so don't try these 
: > experiments BELOW a thunderstorm...  


: I remember reading sometime somewhere long ago that lightning
: has been known to strike from a cloudless and clear blue sky !


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: Kite Trouble - DAVID S. ISSEL

Hi,

Yes, it does happen!  That where the expressions "It struck me right out 
of a blue sky", "It hit me right out of the blue", and similar expression 
come from.

Diane

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