The increase in lightning rates also doesn't seem to be triggered by changes in weather. (sciencemag.org)
We'll need to expand our capacity to love at the same lightning rate of technological advances.» (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Publishing their study today, 15 May 2014, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, researchers from Reading's Department of Meteorology found a substantial and significant increase in lightning rates across Europe for up to 40 days after the arrival of high - speed solar winds, which can travel at more than a million miles per hour, into the Earth's atmosphere. (iop.org)