Dave wrote:

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
.com...
This one is worth a look:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...html?in_articl
e_id=395512&in_page_id=1770
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

though one would wish that clueless reports would refrain from scientific
explanations:
quote
The actual electric charge in a flash of lightning comes from particles from
the sun sent out in the solar wind which gather in the outer atmospheric
layers before creating a strike.

/quote

though at least he has also heard of the real explanation, though he even
distorts that one and refers to it only as a theory, where the above is
stated as a fact.
quote
Scientists are still divided by what actually causes lightning, with one
theory suggesting falling droplets of ice and rain become electrically
polarised(sic) as they fall through the natural electric field in the
Earth's atmosphere.

/quote

What more can you expect from the London 'Daily Wail'?

(However, 'polarised' is perfectly good British English.)


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73 from Ian GM3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek