Explanation: Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, details about how lightning is produced remains a topic of research. What is known is that updrafts carry light ice crystals into collisions with larger and softer ice balls, causing the smaller crystals to become positively charged. After enough charge becomes separated, the rapid electrical discharge that is lightning occurs. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder. Lightning bolts are common in clouds during rainstorms, and on average 44 lightning bolts occur on the Earth every second. Pictured, over 60 images were stacked to capture the flow of lightning-producing storm clouds in July over Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
I am kinda puzzled about Dorothy since her Auntie Em's farm was in Kansas so after that twister, Dorothy isn't in Kansas anymore. Perhaps you meant she is in Oklahoma now, since Oklahoma has been getting a lot of twisters lately as well. Is the shortform for Oklahoma, O.Z.?
Explanation: Pictured, over 60 images
were stacked to capture the flow of
lightning-producing storm clouds in July
over Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
De58te wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:41 pm
I am kinda puzzled about Dorothy since her Auntie Em's farm was in Kansas so after that twister, Dorothy isn't in Kansas anymore. Perhaps you meant she is in Oklahoma now, since Oklahoma has been getting a lot of twisters lately as well. Is the shortform for Oklahoma, O.Z.?
The Land of OZ is shaped like Kansas
(or possibly Colorado, South Dakota or Pennsylvania.)
(No one would ever dream of going to Oklahoma voluntarily!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Oz wrote:
<<Wizard of Oz told Ozma that his birth name was Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs, which, being a very long and cumbersome name, and as his other initials spelled out "PINHEAD," he preferred to leave just as O.Z. [Ozma] relates that the country was already named Oz (a word which in their language means "great and good"), and that it was typical for the rulers to have names that are variations of Oz. The people probably saw his initials on his balloon and took them as a message that he was to be their king.
It has been speculated that Oz was named after the abbreviation for ounce, in the theory that Oz is an allegory for the populist struggle against the illusion (the wizard) of the gold standard [e.g., Dorothy has silver slippers in the book]. Others have said that Oz stands for New York, since the letters of the alphabet before O and Z are N and Y respectively [e.g., I.B.M. => H.A.L.]. However, this works just as well for Pennsylvania, because the letters following O and Z are P and A. Several of Baum's fairy stories were situated on the Ozark Plateau, and the similarity of name may not be a coincidence.>>
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Explanation: Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, details about how lightning is produced remains a topic of research. What is known is that updrafts carry light ice crystals into collisions with larger and softer ice balls, causing the smaller crystals to become positively charged. After enough charge becomes separated, the rapid electrical discharge that is lightning occurs. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder. Lightning bolts are common in clouds during rainstorms, and on average 44 lightning bolts occur on the Earth every second. Pictured, over 60 images were stacked to capture the flow of lightning-producing storm clouds in July over Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
Wait, so if I were to be looking up at the clouds at this time, they likely wouldn’t have the impressionistic painting form they make in this picture? In other words, how much time separated these 60 stacked photos?
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John, when I looked it up and found that RTFB means "Read the f........ binary", I thought "binary" meant a pair of stars! You can imagine my confusion. Thanks for making me see what it actually means!
Lightning over Colorado
Kudos to Joe Randall! I Was especially impressed 
