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To: know.your.why

Look like it’s coming from the ground up. I think it’s fake.


10 posted on 05/15/2021 12:50:39 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: McGavin999

Lightning can strike from the ground up.


12 posted on 05/15/2021 12:57:39 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: McGavin999

Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up?

The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts. Objects on the ground generally have a positive charge. Since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return stroke zips back up to the sky. It is the return stroke that produces the visible flash, but it all happens so fast - in about one-millionth of a second - so the human eye doesn’t see the actual formation of the stroke.


13 posted on 05/15/2021 1:00:41 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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