Our Electric Skies Lightning Safety Photo Card
The article explains lightning is dangerous and kills or injures many yearly in the United States. It notes outdoor activity during summer peak storm time and cites NOAA scientist insights on lightning safety and science. Global lightning averages about 50 flashes per second and around 2,000 thunderstorms occur at any moment.
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United States
Nature
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA
Lightning Explained in Simple Terms for Kids
Lightning is a giant spark of electricity from static charges built up as warm moist air rises and cools to form clouds. Ice crystals and graupel collide creating charges. positives rise with the crystals and negatives with the graupel, attracting and repelling like a high voltage display.
Recipe fragment from The Rare Pail page
A partial recipe says to oil a large baking sheet and bake with seasonings. It notes salt pepper and cumin and warns that an adult should assist with the preparation.
UConn Women Secure Third Straight NCAA Title
The Connecticut Huskies win their eighth consecutive Final Four appearance and beat Notre Dame 63-53 in the NCAA final to claim a third straight championship.
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Agel Kaloons
University of Connecticut
Huskies
Notre Dame
Sen Aomiate
Lightning and sprites across storm clouds and skies
The text explains how charges separate in storm clouds causing lightning from cloud tops and bottoms. It notes that orange red sprites and blue elves shoot from cloud tops, observed by a 1989 airplane pilot, and links lightning to volcanic eruptions and heat lightning.
Thunder and lightning safety tips from The Mini Page
The article explains how lightning heats air to extreme levels, creates thunder, and outlines safety steps. It emphasizes indoors as the safe place, cautions about cars with metal shells, warns against water and plumbing, and notes NOAA guidance when thunder roars. It credits John Jensenius and lists staff.
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NOAA
Lightning Hidden Words Puzzle
A word puzzle lists meteorology related terms like AIR FIRE HEAT SUN and THUNDERSTORM hidden in a block. Readers search for embedded words in various directions including backward to find references to weather phenomena and related terms.
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