On Predicting Lightning Strikes

Apparently UF and Florida Tech research has shown that lightning indeed produces x-rays. As lightning moves, it does so in 30 to 160 foot “steps” so to speak. The x-ray emissions seem to occur at the top of the step only millionths of a second apart from the actual event. At any rate, more expensive and sensitive detectors will be used in continuing research on the potential x-rays have to track and predict the movement of lightning. How about that folks. On a side note, the x-rays are a bit of a phenomenon themselves since the lightning, although 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun, is not, or should not be, able to provide the level of energy sufficient to produce x-rays. Now you may feel a little more or less intelligent then when you started reading this, in which case my job is done. Peace.