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From: dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Lightning
Message-ID: <372@unccvax.unccvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 09:22:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 09:22:23 1985
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    I've observed the same effects around broadcasting towers.  At several
sites I've visited, thunderstorms up to 20 miles away (and local wx being
scattered) can induce, er, specatacular arcing and popping both around 
guy wire and base insulators. In many of these cases there is no evidence
of a thunderstorm "nearby" except for radar weather and the arcing. We're
not talking about little pops, either, but stuff you can sometimes hear
inside a brick building.

    A colleague of mine insists that dusty weather can induce the same
effects in towers; I was just wondering if dusty weather can cause 
"lightning" as well (or help propagate it, etc.) 

David Anthony