Lightning Coloring Pages
Welcome to my Lightning coloring pages section.
A bolt of lightning is about five times hotter than the surface of the sun. It heats the air around it so fast that the air bursts outward with a bang, and that bang is thunder. Light travels faster than sound so you always see the flash first. Count the seconds until the boom and every five of them means the storm is about a mile away.
Jump to: Animals in a Storm | Bolts and Clouds | Storms | Benjamin Franklin | Lighthouses | Mythology
Animals in a Storm
Lightning Bolts and Clouds
Lightning Storms
Benjamin Franklin and the Kite
In 1752 Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm to find out whether lightning was electricity. The story goes that he tied a metal key near the end of the string and when sparks jumped from the key he had his answer. It was very dangerous, so this is one experiment to leave in the history books.
Lighthouses in a Storm
Tall buildings on a coast get hit by lightning a lot, so lighthouses wear a lightning rod. It's a metal rod on top that carries the bolt down to the ground and keeps the keeper safe inside.
Lightning in Mythology
Zeus (Greek God of Lightning)
The one-eyed Cyclopes forged Zeus's thunderbolts, and he kept them close as the weapon that made him king of the gods. A flash from a clear sky was said to be Zeus letting someone know he was watching.
Thor (Norse God of Thunder)
Thor's hammer Mjölnir crashed like thunder when he threw it, and it flew right back to his hand every time. Old stories said the rumble of a summer storm was Thor's goat-drawn chariot rolling across the sky.
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