It is estimated that the earth is struck by 100 lightning bolts every second. The clouds at the high levels of the thunderstorm are made of ice crystals. The formation of ice in a cloud is an ...

Lightning is Incredibly Hot When people think of heat, they often think of things like boiling water or a hot summer's day.

including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). The outages were sparked when a bolt of lightning struck a transformer at a power utility ...