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bahamagreen
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When stopped at a red light during a thunder storm, I notice this:
- I hear the intensity of the rain hitting the roof of the car
- there is a lightning flash
- for a couple of seconds the rain intensity eases up noticeably, then resumes
- then the thunder clap follows a little bit later
It is as if the velocity of the rain slows down immediately after the lightning discharge, as if all the rain drops were briefly experiencing a little upward pull for a second or two.
I know that rain is charged and the lightning is a discharge, and both are relative to the ground, I think, but I don't know the relative polarities... is there some way that the charged rain drops are being momentarily attracted upwards by the lightning or its regional effects?
Could it be that the metal car itself is altering its charge and somehow repelling the rain charges for a moment?
- I hear the intensity of the rain hitting the roof of the car
- there is a lightning flash
- for a couple of seconds the rain intensity eases up noticeably, then resumes
- then the thunder clap follows a little bit later
It is as if the velocity of the rain slows down immediately after the lightning discharge, as if all the rain drops were briefly experiencing a little upward pull for a second or two.
I know that rain is charged and the lightning is a discharge, and both are relative to the ground, I think, but I don't know the relative polarities... is there some way that the charged rain drops are being momentarily attracted upwards by the lightning or its regional effects?
Could it be that the metal car itself is altering its charge and somehow repelling the rain charges for a moment?