Sentences with phrase «fields during thunderstorms»

Bacteria, algae, and fungi are swept up by winds and lifted to the altitude of a Boeing 747 — or catapulted 20 miles into the stratosphere by electric fields during thunderstorms.

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I educated my sons about the dangers of playing sports during an electrical storm when they were four years old and a 13 - year old neighbor in Virginia was struck by lightning and killed because he did not leave the baseball field soon enough during a thunderstorm.

The new model «came out of left field, but it's very original,» says materials scientist Graham Hubler of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., who saw ball lightning as a teenager during a thunderstorm in upstate New York 40 years ago.