It is stated in new research by Reading University, Sun releases energy particles that causes lightning to strike on earth. According to this new discovery, increasing amount of thunderstorm activity on earth and the acceleration of solar wind results the streaming of higher energy particles, evidently these particles are from space and they are one of main causes of lightning bolts.
In Europe, Chris Scott and his team found, the rate of increase in lightning all over region is significant, after the arrival of high speed solar wind for up to 40 days.
Chris Scott from the University of Reading further explained the phenomenon in his statement;” We have found evidence that high-speed solar wind streams can increase lightning rates. This may be an actual increase in lightning or an increase in the magnitude of lightning, lifting it above the detection threshold of measurement instruments,”
Researchers further explained, according to them, across the Europe, within 40 days, there was an average of 422 lightning strikes. These are the 40 days of the arrival of solar wind on Earth. It says after the arrival of solar wind rate of lightning strike increased in between 12 and 18 days, where else solar wind is capable of traveling more than a million miles per hour on earth.
Solar winds collide with atmosphere that causes income of charged particle results the alteration of electric properties of air.
Scott note stated; “The results could prove useful for weather forecasters, since these solar wind streams rotate with the sun, sweeping past the earth at regular intervals, accelerating particles into earth’s atmosphere.”
