Is lightening current electricity or static electricty?

Question

Is lightening current electricity or static electricty?

Answer 1

Lightning can also occur within the ash clouds from volcanic eruptions, or can be caused by violent forest fires which generate sufficient dust to create a static charge.

Answer 2

It is static electricity.

The lightning is caused by excessive electrical imbalances in the thundercloud....the so-called cumulonimbus cloud. Such clouds have water droplets that have enough imbalances in positive and negative charges that something has to balance out the charges...something like what happens when you touch a metal doorknob on a very cold day (of course, when you end up with a static shock).

Such clouds give off lightning in response to these atmospheric parameters....

Total totals indices of 51 or more.......

Convective available potential energies (or CAPEs) of about  

            250 joules per kilogram (or J/kg) or more

More than marginal steep lapse rates during elevated

   or surface-based convection when clouds form

Answer 3

Lightning is static electricity

Answer 4

Lightening is the discharge of a static electrical buildup in the atmosphere.

Current isn't a type of electricity, but a measure.

Answer 5

i am pretty sure its static electricity.