Re: Lightning and whatnot... (Petra...Lowell...you might B interested)
Posted by Michael McNeil on March 17, 2002 at 22:02:35:

No more ideas from me.

The way clousd work is that they separate denser material in strata.

They build up an opposite electronic charge to the earth and to the higher reaches. These discharcge as and where they can. If the plane came out of one layer into the other without time for the charge it picked up to diffuse? No idea.

If that was the answer the Brits or the Yanks would have found out by now.