
The guitar had a chechen fingerboard and a two-piece flame-maple neck, with black veneer down the middle. It was spruce arch top guitar with a chambered maple core. The first lightning bolt was built around 2002. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to being struck by lightning, even if there is no rain falling near you. lightning struck by lightning thunderstorm thunderbolt thundercloud electrostatic discharge thunder storm electric charge thunderclap. I made a total of three versions of the Lightning Bolt guitar for Bob. The flash from these bolts last longer than typical cloud-to-ground negative strikes because there is a larger amount of energy being transferred. The powerful bolt will travel from the top of the storm cloud down to the ground. They are often referred to as a “bolt from the blue”. A positive lighting bolt forms on the outskirts of thunderstorm clouds and can strike 10-20 miles away from the nearest rain drop. Negative charges build up on the ground anywhere from 10 to up to 20 miles away from the actual thunderstorm. These positive strikes begin in the very tip tops of thunderstorm clouds, sometimes up to 10 miles up, where positive charges build up. They are commonly referred to as a “ bolt from the blue” because they seem to strike with blue skies in the background rather than dark storm clouds or rain. These are considerably more powerful and can strike many miles away from the nearest rain drop. The other 5% of bolts are called positive strikes. We report an extraordinary event of a lightning strike to the head of a helmeted bicyclist that occurred under fair weather conditions with a cloudless sky. These make up 95% of the cloud to ground lightning strikes in thunderstorms. Negative lightning strikes that begin at the bottom of a thunderstorm cloud and travel toward the ground. The official colors were: a white lightning bolt ('flash') and circle, a blue roundel, and a red background. These are called negative lightning strikes and make up the majority of the lightning in most thunderstorms. Tracking the Tropics: Invest 91L has medium chance of tropical development as it moves toward Floridaĩ5% of the lightning strikes form when negative charges build up on the bottom of a thunderstorm cloud and travel toward the ground where there is a build up of positive charges.
