Understanding Lightning - Lightning is described, defined, and illustrated briefly. Discusses European research including lightning's preference for certain grounds. Covers Franklin rod, Faraday cage, and ionizing air terminals. This web site contains thousands of weather related images. As a result, links to these images are grouped by data type, image type and region.
Lightning creates thunder.
How lightning reaches the ground. Weather and Lightning Photography - About 5000 photographs of lightning, storms, sunsets, sunrises, rainbows and all types of clouds, carefully classified. Includes a guide to weather observation. Live Lightning maps, data, and photographs. West Virginia Lightning - A compilation of a variety of educational resources, photos and sounds on lightning for all ages.