On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:43:05 +0100, JPG inspired by Deep
Thought wrote:

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:18:06 +0100, "Stephen Sumner,
YachtingUniverse.com" wrote:

http://www.sailinganarchy.com/fringe...0lightning.jpg

In the picture you can see a small green bolt of lightning, is this the
leader strike?


If it's not an photographic artefact or a fake, it is likely to be the
ground stroke, the one that is induced at the ground and goes up to
meet the stepped leader.

....but this one never made the connection! I tend to agree with Martin on this
one: if it's not a fake it's one of several "streamers" that went up from the
ground as the pool of electrons from the exploratory downward leader neared the
ground.

I have a picture somewhere which shows several streamers going up from treetops
& chimneys etc but only one made the connection. If I can find it, I'll post it
to alt.binaries.weather.

Nigel

Aagh! Every time I learn something new... it pushes something old out of my brain!