-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to Daryl Stout on 09-10-12 18:51 <=-

 >   From 3pm Sept. 7 to 5am Sept. 8, there were approximately 53,000 cloud to
 > ground lightning strikes in Arkansas. Between 8pm and 9pm Sept. 7,
 > approximately 12,200 lightning strikes occurred...averaging over 200
 > strikes a minute!!

 MR> I dunno if this is true, or even something I should post here. But
 MR> there was alightning expert on one of the news channels the other day
 MR> and he saidsomething that I just could not believe. He talked about the
 MR> temperature oflightning, which I don't remember, but it was amazing.
 MR> Also he said we see longstreaks when we see lightning, but in all
 MR> actuality, it is only about the sizeof a pencil. Is that true?!? I just
 MR> can't imagine that. 

It's something about the persistence of vision, and the fact that it
moves so fast, that what the brain perceives is the long streak.

ttyl         neb

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