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Top 10 questions  

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 Cause of  lightning

2

 Where lightning hits

3

 Hurricane spin

4

 How hot is lightning

5

 Jupiter's surface

6

 How rainbows form

7

 Ball lightning

8

 Hurricane energy

9

 Lightning hits a tornado
10  Orange night skies

Current Column:  A saintly light

st elmo's fire

Why would a lightning-struck tree glow after being hit? It is not on fire and does not give off heat, but glows. 

It was a dark and stormy night.  Chris emails he was walking in the woods  "a little after a thunderstorm" when he noticed the tree.  The tree, shattered by an earlier lightning stroke, stabbed the night like a broken pike.  An eerie glow extended ... Click to continue

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High

Why do jets leave white streaks in the sky?

 

Medium



 

Low

Why does the sky appear orangish in colour when it is cloudy or raining at night?
 
Convective

Why do clouds stick together? Why don't they diffuse uniformly into the atmosphere at the altitude in which the moisture condenses, like a uniform fog instead of a puffy cloud?

When a thunderstorm approaches, the sky turns black. Why?

 

Other

What is the plume often seen trailing from the downwind side of Mount Everest? Is it a cloud or is it blowing snow lifted from the upwind side of the mountain?

I've always wondered how there could be clouds when it was below freezing. Should they not just freeze and fall out of the sky?

When the sun is behind the clouds, and I see sunrays breaking through the clouds, are they really spreading out as they appear to be, or, is this just an illusion?  (crepuscular clouds)

 

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