I'm not at all expert on these things but not much has been said.
As far as I know, there is what is called a "return stroke".
Lightning goes from cloud to ground and then the superheated air
furnishes a conduit for a stroke to go back to the cloud. I have no
ideas why the return stroke appears to be much stronger than the
original. But this all may be wrong anyway.
Don
Tim Mulholland wrote:
Yes, this image is very interesting.
My guess that the reason for the two flashes is that lightning, I
believe, moves from the ground to the clouds. In this case, maybe it
was just happenstance that the aircraft was in the wrong place at the
wrong time...
Tim!
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here is some cool photography!
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/ltg/plane_japan.php
why two flashes?
r
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