Average Daily Global Lightning Strikes
Lightning strikes the earth's surface an average of 6,000 times a minute.
    
Ball Lightning
Ball lightning is the name given to free floating balls of light observed during thunderstorms.
    
Ball Lightning
Most observations of ball lightning are made during thunderstorm activity.
 
Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page
Hi, I'm NEWSCHANNEL 19's, Chief Meteorologist Dan Satterfield. I've put these pages together for kids between 6 and 16 yeras old and for their parents and teachers too!

For Kids
Safety tips for kids on lightning. From the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Lightning
Want to learn more about the lightning and understand what's going on in these storms? Kids can learn more about lightning by visiting sources such as the the Exhibit page, or another source is the National Geographic Page on lightning. Lightning extending from thunderstorms into space is a new area of study and may be observed in special situations involving very clear dark skies.
    
Lightning Photos by Bert Reimer
All photos are copyright Bert Reimer - 1999, 2000

Owlie Skywarn
Welcome to the Owlie Skywarn Homepage. I am the official mascot of the National Weather Service (NOAA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). I teach about the hazards of severe weather which include tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes, flash floods and winter storms.
  
Space Science NEWS
Human Voltage: What happens when people and lightning converge?

Static Generator
Electric Blue Sparks! No Batteries or Electrical Outlet Required!
 
The Virtual Times: Unusual Experiences with Lightning
When I was 10 years old in 1958, two of my cousings and I were sitting in the living-room of my uncle's farm house...
    
West Virginia Lightning
There really aren't differrent "types" of lightning, almost all lightning discharges occur in basically the same way.