0 Question: Do we know how ball lightning is created? Keywords: ball lightning Asked by 980artc36 to Andrew, Lizzie, Nick, Sonia on 22 Jun 2015.
Elizabeth Kapasa answered on 22 Jun 2015:
Wow! I’ve never heard of it until now. Thanks for telling me about it! This website is great for finding out about things: http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/ball-lightning.htm This was a good article too! http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24886-natural-ball-lightning-probed-for-the-first-time.html#.VYgeI2C9-SI
Andrew Phillips answered on 24 Jun 2015:
I didn’t even know about it till I read the question. At least I know what it is now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
My instinct is to say that it’s probably related to different charges within a storm, but it seems there are quite a lot of hypotheses out there!
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