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Stormy afternoon and electrical apparatus in Manlleu, in Osona, where we have been able to capture for The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia the movement of the rain curtains and the various forms drawn by lightning between the clouds in the grayish sky.
Lightning is a powerful natural electrical discharge of static electricity, produced during a thunderstorm, which generates an electromagnetic pulse.
The precipitated electric discharge of lightning is accompanied by the emission of light (lightning), caused by the passage of electric current, which ionizes the air molecules, and by the sound of thunder, developed by the shock wave.
Electricity (electrical current), passing through the atmosphere, rapidly heats and expands the air, producing the characteristic noise of thunder.
Spring storms can give rise to these powerful natural electrical discharges of static electricity and offer us a real spectacle of light and sound in the sky, like fireworks.
If a curtain of precipitation reaches the surface, it receives the name of Praecipitatio (this is an additional feature of the clouds, since they start from them).
When this precipitation evaporates and disappears before reaching the ground, it is called virga.
