Does weather on earth have an effect on objects in earth orbit?
Does atmospheoric pressure have any effect on orbiting satellites?
Is electrical charge “felt” in space?? How about lightning discharge?
Mostly, no, but some, in certain cases. Low earth orbits are just above the upper reaches of the stratosphere. When extremes of weather increase the depth of the atmosphere, the density of the highest reaches will increase. That causes low orbit objects to experience more friction, and that can cause their orbits to decay. Mostly, aside from increased reflected light levels during periods of higher cloud cover, Earth’s weather is restricted to the Troposphere, and has no affect on objects in space.
The increase in height of the atmosphere is part of the phenomenon of atmospheric pressure, so, as noted above it has an effect on low earth orbits.
Felt might be a bit much. However, lightning can be detected from orbit, so it therefore must have some effect. The measurement of electrical charge distribution over the atmosphere is accomplished with sensitive instruments, so again while it must have some effect, feeling it seems a bit out of the realm of likelihood.
Tris
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Maybe. Recently, a new class of lightning has been found which starts at cloudtops and goes up. Since the field is new, the ramifications are still not well understood. Try this link to Scientific American.
http://www.spaceweather.com/ is also a good place to read up on things like this.