Evidence item

A Toronto Star report quoting lightning researcher Ali Hussein links a tall sharp tower’s enhanced tip field to upward leader initiation. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Plucking lightning from the sky · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:26489e0c2e2b3d3d9ea41475d8409e883f2404d0e34a720b010b7f6709971ae5

Because it's so tall and sharp, the electric field at its tip increases if there's a charged cloud above it. It produces what we call an upwards initiated leader, like connecting a wire between the tip of the tower and the charge centre of the cloud.