Credit & Copyright: Sergio Montcfar
(Pinceladas Nocturnas)
Explanation:
Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe?
You're not alone.
Details of what causes
lightning are still
being researched, but it is known that
inside some clouds, internal updrafts cause collisions
between ice and snow that slowly
separate charges between cloud tops and bottoms.
The
rapid electrical discharges that are
lightning soon result.
Lightning usually takes a jagged course,
rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the
Sun.
The resulting shock wave starts
supersonically and decays into the
loud
sound known as
thunder.
On average, around the world, about
6,000 lightning bolts occur between clouds and the
Earth every minute.
Pictured in July 2019 in a two-image composite,
lightning stems from communication antennas near the top of
Volccn de Agua
(Volcano of Water) in
Guatemala.
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