Learn how thunderstorms build, hurricanes form, tornadoes destroy, and about crazy weather phenomena. Included are fascinating insights into weather patterns of the past, including Noah's Flood and the Ice Age, and wather in the future. A large amount of energy is released with each lightning bolt. Because updrafts that cause thunderstorms occur more often when the ground is warm than cool. Because the stratosphere is warmer than the air immediately below it.
Thunderstorms provide summer water, cool the earth, and clean the air.
They also balance the Earth's electricity and provide fertilizer. Both lightning and static electricity involve electrons that travel from a negative to a positive area liberating energy. Thunder is the sound of air expanding as the temperature increases due to the lightning bolt splitting the air. A sharp crack. Lightning travels at the speed of light which is a million times faster.