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Indirect Route

2024-10-20 By Roger Edwards

Indirect Route

The juxtaposition of two electric sources highlights the stark differences between them.  While the half-second lightning flash contains 30,000 amperes of direct current, along a tortuously shaped plasma “wire” carved through the air by the invisible step leader, the physical wires supply only enough continual alternating current to support 15- to 30-amp outlets in the house.   The pole-mounted can contains a transformer that transforms higher-voltage AC to the lower voltage needed for this farmstead.  Now one can see how household electronics and appliances can be overwhelmed by a nearby lightning strike accessible to the wires, even if most of the lightning’s power goes elsewhere.

1 SE Aspermont TX (7 May 23) Looking S
33.1284, -100.2141

Filed Under: Night Lightning Tagged With: Aspermont, clouds, convection, farms, Great Plains, lightning, nighttime, storms, Texas, thunderstorms, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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