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RDN

Tropical tonka bean trees (Dipteryx oleifera) not only survive lightning strikes, but appear to benefit from them. Lightning strikes on tonka bean trees kills liana vines that are growing on the trees, and kills or damages surrounding trees.

Summary: sciencenews.org/article/tropic

Original paper (not open access): nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do

A Dipteryx oleifera tree stand above the forest. It benefits from lightning strikes, new research suggests.
Science News · Some tropical trees act as lightning rods to fend off rivalsThough being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.
#Science#Nature#Ecology
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srlee

“A Migration Story”
Last week near Kearney, Nebraska on the Platte River with the migrating sandhill cranes (about 700,00 in this area when I was there). I was overnighting in a blind when this storm approached from the west.
#nebraska #nebraskaphotography #kearnynebraska #sandhillcrane #migration #lightning #weather #Sky #Clouds #thunderstorm #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #WildlifePhotographer #Nature #NaturePhotography #NaturePhotographer #OurPlanetDaily #EarthFocus #photographer

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Nathan Hubbard

I love it when they zoom into the map in some of these rural Tennessee areas and say stuff like “the tornado is now crossing old Lebanon dirt road and Possum Wallow Creek Road, moving toward the corner of upper brushy Creek Road and State Route 13”
#lightning #tnwx #tornado

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Miss Gayle

"Storm clouds generate massive electrical potentials...but nowhere is the electric field strong enough to ionize the air and start a miles-long branching bolt. Something needs to create the initial spark...

Using precise radio-wave detection in three dimensions, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have determined that the sparks are provided by cosmic rays...atomic-scale particles traveling at incredible speeds..."

Link: dendroica.substack.com/p/inter

Interlude: Galactic Lightning And a real planetary alignment Markael Luterra, Mar 27, 2025 Image of a grey sky over water, small boats and rocks in the foreground, above a lightning bolt reaches from the sky to the water. Atef Ouni, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Amidst the chaotic headlines last week, the news you probably didn’t hear is that scientists have effectively confirmed that cosmic rays spark lightning. I want to share why I find this absolutely wondrous, which means I first need to try to describe some physics at the boundaries of my understanding. There is a problem with lightning. The problem is that it shouldn’t actually happen. "When these extra-powerful particles collide with atoms in the atmosphere, at a rate of about 15 per square mile per second, they generate a chain reaction of nuclear physics, each impact creating more particles like a series of billiard breaks until over a million balls are in motion and the energy has finally been exhausted. This is called an “air shower”, and it’s happening all around us all of the time, and it’s how our atmosphere protects our bodies and all life on Earth."
#Lightning#Weather#AstroPhysics
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Jer 🚵🏼

Looked like a normal tree until I walked around the side. I’m guessing it’s a lightning strike from long ago that the tree has been doing its best to recover from, but it's a large gap to bridge, going from the ground all the way up 20 feet or more.
Second photo of multiple trees in another area of woods that had a lightning strike within a week of my photo, illustrating what this tree had to deal with.

tall tree trunk looking from ground level up, it has a 4”+ wide gap in the external bark that reveals the internal wood rotting somewhat. The bark on the edges of the gap is rounded as if the tree has been trying to seal things up but it is a long ways. Way up at top of photo the gap gets closer and then appears to almost seal, just a small line remains.
Multiple tree lightning strike, you’re looking into a pretty dense section of forest and at least three of the visible trees have long rips in their bark, from ground up 20 feet or so. One of them (on right) has a spiral damage pattern. On the ground below these trees are giant splinters that were blown off the trees for the lightning force (flash heats moisture in trunk).
#TrickTrunkThursday#trees#lightning
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