Thunder and Lightening are the two things which are probably the best associated with atmospheric electricity, but it would probably surprise people to learn that the whole of the Earth’s surface is a huge conductor for electricity, this is to do with the presence of free electrons and negative and positive ions.

There are three main factors which cause atmospheric electricity these are thunderstorms, ionospheric wind and magnetosphere.

Static electricity is one of the things that children love, when they rub a balloon on their tummy and let go and it sticks, this is static electricity. You can get static shocks from many things, a lot of people experience these whilst in department stores or whilst pushing a shopping trolley around the supermarket, and although pretty unharmful, these do at times hurt.

Aircrafts are also known to accumulate electrical, this happens in two ways, the most substantial accumulation of electricity is from flying. The other type of static happens due to the atmosphere or weather around it, this is known as precipitation static.

When a thunder and lightening storm occur this is due to a build up of electricity, this is why they usually occur when it has been hot and humid. Electricity is everywhere and there have been experiments carried out under huge electricity pylons to prove that you can use the waste electricity from the pylons to power light bulbs and such like.

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