Sources of Further Information

Websites

How Stuff Works - Lightning site
http://www.howstuffworks.com/lightning.htm

U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service Lightning information
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/ltg/

Australian Severe Weather site including pictures of lightning
http://australiasevereweather.com/

American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics brochure "The Pervasive Plasma State"
http://w3fusion.ph.utexas.edu/aps/plasmaState/PPSPage1.html

Books

Crowder, R. The Wonders of the Weather, Bureau of Meteorology, 2000.
Uman, M. Lightning, McGraw-Hill, 1968.