Question on Lighting?

Question

How is lightning made?

Answer 1

Ionization and disassociation and the resultant electrical charges that ensue.

Answer 2

Lightning is made by large build-up of positive and negative electric charge in clouds and on the ground. That is known as static electricity. When the potential difference (difference in amount of electrical energy for the amount of charge) is high enough, an electric jump occurs.

Unlike charges attract, which means positive charges will move to negative charges or negative charges will move to positive charges. The human eye sees that electric jump as a bolt of lightning.

Answer 3

Lightning is an electrical discharge caused by differences in electrical charge distribution between the top and bottom of clouds and between the cloud and the ground.

The temperature of a lightning bolt can reach 30,000°C - five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

As ascending air cools down on its journey skywards it gradually becomes more humid.

Sheet lightning describes how lightning can illuminate clouds in the distance.