skeeter on soil nitrogen from lightning

[sylvie]

Another effect of lightning on soil (sandy)are Fulgurites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgurite

Looks like hollow glass tubes and sometimes called petrified lightning.

 

[dacjohns]

Another effect of lightning on soil (sandy)are Fulgurites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgurite

Looks like hollow glass tubes and sometimes called petrified lightning.

And featured in the movie Sweet Home Alabama.

 

[sylvie]

I'll have to watch that Dacs. My source is more unconventional. Trees struck by lightning can have Fulgurites beneath which are considered sacred to some pagans.

 

[old fashioned]

I'll leave the detailed science to previous posters cause

But I did read/see somewhere that lightening does energize plants/trees for better growth. As when after a storm everything has a "supernatural"? "glowing"? green look to it.