{"id":686785,"date":"2021-04-12T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686785"},"modified":"2021-04-12T07:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T11:41:01","slug":"upward-lightning-takes-its-cue-from-nearby-lightning-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686785","title":{"rendered":"Upward lightning takes its cue from nearby lightning events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the chaos of a thunderstorm, upward moving lightning occasionally springs from the tops of tall structures. Scientists don&#8217;t fully understand how upward lightning is triggered; it is likely a combination of multiple environmental factors, such as the background electric field and the structure&#8217;s height. In a new study, Sunjerga et al. investigate how ambient lightning events near tall structures may trigger upward lightning.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-04-upward-lightning-cue-nearby-events.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Upward lightning takes its cue from nearby lightning events<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the chaos of a thunderstorm, upward moving lightning occasionally springs from the tops of tall structures. Scientists don&#8217;t fully understand how upward lightning is triggered; it is likely a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}