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    Does lightning travel up from the ground or Down from the sky. ?

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      Actually it travels in both directions, as well as from one cloud to another. 

      14 years ago. Rating: 1
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        Always from cloud to ground.

        14 years ago. Rating: 5
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          From the sky to the ground and then it can go anywhere.

          14 years ago. Rating: 3
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            I'm wondering, if it came from the ground and went up (which it doesn't), wouldn't there be alot more wildfires?  Wouldn't there be alot of scorched eruption sites?


             

            14 years ago. Rating: 1
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              A cloud-to-ground lightning strike begins as an invisible channel of electrically charged air moving from the cloud toward the ground. When one channel nears an object on the ground, a powerful surge of electricity from the ground moves upward to the cloud and produces the visible lightning strike!

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