{"id":11729,"date":"2017-07-12T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T04:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T04:08:17","slug":"how-storm-turbulence-can-spark-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/07\/how-storm-turbulence-can-spark-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Storm Turbulence Can Spark Lightning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Eos<\/em> had an interesting article this week about how turbulent pockets of air inside of thunderstorms can help set up the conditions necessarily for lightning, a new finding published recently in Journal of Geophysics: Atmospheres.\u00a0 The new study shows that the bumpy air not only caused your plane to jump up and down but can help increase static electricity inside of the clouds, helping to build up the charges needed to produce lightning.\u00a0 You can read more about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/how-storm-turbulence-can-spark-lightning\">https:\/\/eos.org\/research-spotlights\/how-storm-turbulence-can-spark-lightning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3571\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3571\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning-229x138.jpg 229w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/pink-lightning.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Thomas Bresson, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eos had an interesting article this week about how turbulent pockets of air inside of thunderstorms can help set up the conditions necessarily for lightning, a new finding published recently in Journal of Geophysics: Atmospheres.\u00a0 The new study shows that the bumpy air not only caused your plane to jump up and down but can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11730,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions\/11730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}