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How is sheet lightning different than lightning strikes?
Sheet lightning is Cloud to Cloud where Lightning is Cloud to Ground.
What is the electrical discharge between a cloud and the ground?
That would be lightning.
Does lightning go up?
Lightning can strike upwards, from the ground to the sky, and it can also strike downwards, from one cloud to another, or from one part of a cloud to another part. (see: http://www.answers.com/topic/lightning)
What is an electrical discharge between parts of cloud or a cloud and the ground is called?
That's called 'lightning'.
Three most important things about electricity?
Lightning can happen cloud-to-ground, intra-cloud, and inter-cloud. Lightning is almost every color of the rainbow. lightning is rarely yellow. Lightning doesn't strike the tallest thing, it follows the easiest path.
How is sheet lightning different than lightning strikes?
Sheet lightning is Cloud to Cloud where Lightning is Cloud to Ground.
Does lightning only occur from cloud to ground?
Double ZapperYes. In fact, visible lightning usually comes up from the ground into the cloud! The lightning bolt is actually retracing a path of weak electricity that the cloud sent down as a sort of "feeler" sensing for the shortest path to take to the ground. So if you're in an open space during a lightning storm, and you feel your hair stand up from static electricity, you might want to run for cover!
Can cirrus clouds cause lightning?
Yes lightning has been observed in cirrus clouds. They usually are cloud lightning. Cirrus are too high and vertically isolated to generate cloud to ground lightning Chandima Gomes
Does a lightning bolt originate from the ground?
I am 100 percent sure that lightning comes from the clouds. The bottom part of the clouds are sometimes negatively charged and when they get near high objects (usually trees or tall buildings) they release all the negative charged atoms as plasma.
You were told from a earth science teacher that lightning starts from the ground is this true?
There are many types of lightning STREAMERS that start a lightning strike. There are 3 basic places where streamers will originate from. They can come from a cloud to the ground or the ground to a cloud or from cloud to cloud. So your teacher was correct. But not always from the ground.
Does lightning start from the ground and go up or start from the clouds and go down?
There are three types of lightening, There is Ground-to-cloud, Cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud.
What is the transfer of electrons from a cloud to the ground during a lightning strike?
what is this called when transfer of electrons from a cloud to the ground
What is the difference between pos and neg lightning strike?
Positive is from cloud to ground. Negative is from ground to cloud.
Does the Lightning bolt travel down from the cloud or up from the cloud?
The cloud sends down electrons to the ground and when it finds a substance lightning can travel through than a discharge travels up to the cloud, the lightning. If you stand on rubber lightning wont discharge.
How often does cloud-to-ground lightning strike?
less than 10% of all lightning
What is electricity that jumps from one cloud to another or from a cloud to the ground?
this is commonly referred to as "lightning"
Is cloud to ground lightning the deadliest kind of lightning?
I'm pretty sure that's the only kind of lightning.
