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Old Wed Jul 15, 2009, 08:41am
Ref Ump Welsch
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Originally Posted by TussAgee11 View Post
Just a quickie -

Do you have to have a cloud in order to have a lightening strike? In other words, if it is blue skies above, for miles all around, and one black cloud off in the distance, is it true that the lightening can only come from that cloud?
If you knew your weather facts, lightning does not come from the sky, it comes from the ground. The charges are at both ends, sky and ground, but it originates in the ground.
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