[TowerTalk] Is lightning hitting the tower..or the yagi's

[K1TTT]

> Since reading that, I have noticed there are storms where the bolts
> seem to be singular, not pulsed.

A lot of lightning phenomena have very wide statistical distributions.  That
is why we tell utilities to use at least 10 years of data when doing any
serious analysis of lightning related outages.  I would venture a guess that
if multiple strokes are caused by multiple charge pockets in the clouds that
smaller or simpler cells may not have the extra charge pockets to fuel the
extra strokes.  But there are probably lots of other things like time of day
when you see the strokes, during daytime maybe your eyes can't differentiate
multiple strokes but you can at night, or distance, or all sorts of other
things.


David Robbins K1TTT
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