Lightning

Charges between clouds or between a cloud and the ground produce atmospheric electrical discharges—lightning. The flow of electricity from one discharge point to another also produces a sound wave heard as thunder.

Keith Kent/Science Source/Photo Researchers, Inc.

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Lightning; Electricity

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