Lighting

Today Slothy was just watering the his cacti when he saw a little drop of water fall out of the sky, and then it just started to pour. Three seconds later he saw lighting. It was so bright that Slothy fell off of the platform the cacti were sitting on! Slothy got up grabbed a pen a notebook and went down the stairs to take notes on what was happening outside. Slothy looked at the computer and searched on “lightning,” and here is what it said:

Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions in the atmosphere or ground temporarily equalize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of as much as one gigajoule of energy.

Slothy took notes, but then he wanted to find out how many different types of lighting there are. Slothy looked on the computer and searched “how many different types of lightning are there?” This time, here is what it said:

Types of cloud-to-ground lightning include staccato, forked, ribbon, and bead lightening. –Staccato lightning is a strike which is a short-duration stroke that often, but not always, appears as a single very bright flash and often has considerable branching.

Slothy wrote that in his notebook, too. Slothy was all ready to take a picture of the lightening, but it took him so long to get to the door that the storm was over.

Instead of getting a picture of lightning, he took a picture of a rainbow.