iPod Saves Girl from Lightning Strike

(June 19) -- Sophie Frost was lucky to receive an ipod from her grandmother, not just for enjoying tunes on the go but for saving her life several days later when she was struck by a powerful bolt of lightning.
The 14-year-old British girl was hit by a 300,000-volt bolt while she and her boyfriend were standing underneath a tree. Although the impact knocked them both out and left them with minor burns, the electricity was diverted away from her vital organs, the Daily Mail reported.

http://www.gnn.com%2Farticle%2Fipod-saves-lightning-strike-victim%2F534805

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/ipod_lightning_strike/

Sprites are extreme high altitude lightning

I actually first about sprites when my students were doing our research projects. Sprites how are extreme high altitude lightning displays. These remarkable electrical displays can sometimes be photographed as this one was at 80 km. See the photo and directions how to do sprit chasing and look for the phenomenon.
6/9/09
(if not this date go to this link/website and then go to archives link which is on the Spaceweather page lower portion)
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Amazing lightning photo tells more about connections with Volcanoes

It has always been a mystery how lightning appears and can be created from volcanic eruptions . Interesting that this first time photo has not been captured before. For the first time, scientists have observed and traced lightning inside a plume of ash spewing from an actively erupting volcano.

Volcano's Lightning Captured in Photo
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Long-Lived Lightning Storm discovered on Saturn

Scientists continue to find new discoveries about the dynamic weather system on Saturn and other planets.
posted: 29 April 2008 3:53 pm EDT
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080429-saturn-lightning-storm.html

also
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080327-saturn-hurricanes.html

lightning: don't take a leak, clean your teeth or jog with ipod

Incredible news items about weather and lightning

Which do you find most incredible and why?
(1) , (2) or (3)
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Biker's penis hit by lightning
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22478688-23109,00.html
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AN Croatian motorbike rider was knocked unconscious when lightning struck his penis during a roadside toilet break.

Metro.co.uk reported Ante Djindjic, 29, escaped relatively unscathed from the incident, suffering only light burns to his chest and arms.
He said: "I don't remember what happened. One minute I was taking a leak and the next thing I knew I was in hospital.

"Doctors said the lightning went through my body and because I was wearing rubber boots it earthed itself through my penis."

"Thankfully, the doctors said that there would be no lasting effects, and my penis will function normally eventually."
That's just as long as lightning doesn't stike in the same place twice.

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Lightning exits from woman's bum

A Croatian woman was left with a severely burned anus after a lightning strike which entered through her mouth left her body through her bottom. picked by mitzuzake 2 weeks ago

Lightning exits from woman's bum
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
What Natasha Timarovic's bottom may have looked like


A Croatian woman was left with a severely burned anus after a lightning strike which entered through her mouth left her body through her bottom.
The lightning reportedly struck Natasha Timarovic's building as she was cleaning her teeth – with her mouth to the tap, sending the current through her body.

And as she was wearing rubber-soled shoes, the lightning bolt was unable to earth through her feet – so it took the next easiest route, and came out of her rectum.
It then earthed itself via her moist shower curtain.
'It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don't remember much at all,' Timarovic said.
A medic told local news station 24 Sata: 'Instead of earthing through her feet, it appears the electricity shot out of her backside… if she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed.'
The medic described the incident as 'bizarre, but not impossible.'

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=20883

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A Jogger Wearing iPod Struck by Lightning

A man wearing his iPod during a thunderstorm was hurled eight feet into the air when lightning hit a tree close by. The 37-year-old Canadian jogger was taken to a Vancouver hospital with burned parts of body, blown-out eardrums and fracture of a lower jaw. The burns covering the man's chest, neck and ear coincided with the positions of his iPod earphones he was wearing at the moment of the lightning strike.

http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news/a-jogger-wearing-ipod-struck-by-lightning.html

Lightning and Thunderstorm research

These great sparks in the atmosphere are beautiful, deadly and more. They are something we take for granted. But scientists are still trying to search for more clues about their nature. Here is the latest.
Flying Into a Thunderstorm
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/18jul_tc4.htm?list731500Students
(E.O.A.S.1) Will gain an understanding between lighting and thunderstorms
(E.O.A.S.2) Will communicate in what ways equipment and scientists use devices to discover more about lightning and thunderstorms

Lightning photos

Lightning is an amazing phenomenon.
Did you know that the temperature inside a bolts is hotter then the sun?

6/20/07
(E.O.A.S.1) Contrast the ratio of the Sun's photosphere temperature compared to Lightning.Draw a graph of the difference.

Lightning