A single bolt can reach temperatures as high as 30,000 ... However, there's also cloud-to-cloud lightning, where bolts dance between clouds, and intra-cloud lightning, which occurs within a ...

Lightning forms due to a difference in charges. Negative charges accumulates at the bottom of the storm cloud. Of course, opposites attract. A positive charge accumulates on the ground under the storm ...

the cloud becomes a giant capacitor, building electrical energy as the ice crystals bump past each other. Eventually, that capacitor discharges, and out shoots a lightning bolt, five times hotter ...