Fantastic Lightning Show Over City Lights is a photograph by James BO Insogna which was uploaded on November 19th, 2016.
Fantastic Lightning Show Over City Lights
Summertime monsoon thunderstorm with lightning striking over the Mcdowell Mountains in Scottsdale Arizona putting on a fantastic light show. The... more
Title
Fantastic Lightning Show Over City Lights
Artist
James BO Insogna
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Nature Landscape Photography Prints
Description
Summertime monsoon thunderstorm with lightning striking over the Mcdowell Mountains in Scottsdale Arizona putting on a fantastic light show. The lightning is striking in between Scottsdale and Fountain Hills. It is like clock work in the late summer starting around sunset and going into the night. The average striking length of a regular lightning is about 2 to 3 miles and carries electricity of nearly 100 million volts. A lightning strike can be seen from a distance of over 100 miles however, the visibility depends on several factors like air clarity, height of the bolt and even the elevation of the viewer.
A CG lightning can actually strike people on ground. That's because the negative charges at the bottom of a could lead to formation of positive charges on ground. The lightning bolt seeks the shortest route to reach the positively charged particles on ground. These positively charged particles on the other hand have a tendency to concentrating around anything sticking up. Tall building and trees are usually the victims but in absence of any such structure, these charges concentrate around the feet of a person in an open place and bam! The person becomes the shortest route. Photo: (C) James "Bo" Insogna.
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November 19th, 2016
