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Lightning strikes from the ground up.
Electrons have a negative charge.
Positive lightening travels in reverse by going from the ground up into clouds.
When these two streamers or ion groups meet visible lightning is created.
A lightning bolt is created from the ground up and also down from the sky.
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Let s clear up the words up and down and the direction of electricity.
Electricity is the flow of electrons.
First the base of a cloud sends down a little electric discharge called a stepped leader.
Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning and on average makes up less than 5 of all lightning strikes.
Cloud to ground lightning comes from the sky down but the part you see comes from the ground up.
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is an electric discharge between the atmosphere and the ground.
A less common type of strike called ground to cloud gc lightning is upward propagating lightning initiated from a tall grounded object and reaching into the clouds.
A typical cloud to ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity that we cannot see towards the ground in a series of spurts.
Does lightning strike from the sky down or the ground up.
This phenomenon occurs because of a difference in charge between a storm cloud and the ground.
Negative charges from a thunderstorm slowly lower to the ground while positive charges rise from the ground or an object toward the sky.
They mostly originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground called cloud to ground cg lightning.
The answer is both.
44 a bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear but turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground.
Each bolt can contain up to one billion volts.
Cloud to ground lightning bolts are a common phenomenon about 100 strike earth s surface every single second yet their power is extraordinary.