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KIDS' LIGHTNING INFORMATION AND SAFETY

by Sabrina

FLASH TO BANG PAGE 2
"Bolt from the Blue"

This picture shows lightning reaching far from a storm. The photographer guesses that it hit the ground about 3 to 5 miles away from the storm.

Bolt from the Blue (Copyright 1976 Al Moller) NOAA

If you were standing there and it was daytime, the lightning would have come out of a blue sky with no cloud above you and no rain falling on you. This is why flash to bang counting is so very important. Remember that lightning can strike 10 or possibly even 15 or more miles from a cloud.

Al Moller of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) took this picture and gave me permission to use it on this page.

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