What the direction of a lightening up or down?

Question

What the direction of a lightening up or down?

Answer 1

most of the lightning are cloud to ground lightning

Answer 2

The charge travels Up

Answer 3

lightning goes both up and down.when lighting first strikes it goes down then there is a backlash that travels upward

Answer 4

Well, it goes both ways. After the initial lightning leader of a cloud-to-ground event starts within the cloud above, it approaches the ground. As it does, an upward streamer emerges from the object about to be struck. When the two meet, this completes the path to ground, and the cloud is short-circuited with a brilliant, luminous 60,000 mile per second return stroke from the earth back up into the cloud. If the flash has more than one stroke, a dart leader emerges from the cloud and follows the same path (usually) to ground without branching, and as it approaches the object to be hit, another upward streamer emerges, resulting in the next return stroke. Occasionally the stepped leader originates at the ground (more likely from a tall building or tower), and moves upwards. The branching of the first stroke would then look like an upside down tree. This could also be considered true “upside down lightning.”

Answer 5

some are cloud to ground and others ground to cloud. the step leader comes upward from the ground to the cloud then the lightning follow for ground to cloud. cloud to ground the step leader goes from cloud to ground then the lightning. (the step leader is an invisible "lightning strike" that detirmines where the lightning will travel through the air)

Answer 6

going up