Lightning discharge | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/06/2019

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00:01:27 1 Electrification
00:04:12 2 General considerations
00:05:33 3 Distribution and Frequency
00:11:05 4 Necessary conditions
00:12:02 4.1 Electrical field generation
00:13:05 5 Flashes and strikes
00:14:03 5.1 Lightning leaders
00:18:14 5.2 Upward streamers
00:19:12 5.3 Attachment
00:19:53 5.4 Discharge
00:20:03 5.4.1 Return stroke
00:23:02 5.4.2 Re-strike
00:25:22 5.4.3 Transient currents during flash
00:27:43 6 Types
00:28:54 6.1 Cloud to ground (CG)
00:30:06 6.1.1 Positive and negative lightning
00:35:16 6.2 Cloud to cloud (CC) and intra-cloud (IC)
00:36:54 6.3 Observational variations
00:46:27 7 Effects
00:46:36 7.1 Lightning strike
00:48:00 7.2 Thunder
00:50:39 7.3 High-energy radiation
00:52:21 7.4 Air quality
00:52:57 8 Volcanic
00:54:30 9 Extraterrestrial
00:55:36 10 Human-related phenomena
00:56:55 11 Scientific study
00:57:05 11.1 Properties
00:58:30 11.2 Detection and monitoring
01:00:57 11.3 Artificially triggered
01:03:48 11.4 Physical manifestations
01:03:58 11.4.1 Magnetism
01:05:27 11.5 Solar wind and cosmic rays
01:05:52 12 In culture and religion
01:09:43 13 See also



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SUMMARY
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Lightning is a violent and sudden electrostatic discharge where two electrically charged regions in the atmosphere temporarily equalize themselves, usually during a thunderstorm.
Lightning creates a wide range of electromagnetic radiations from the very hot plasma created by the electron flow, including visible light in the form of black-body radiation. Thunder is the sound formed by the shock wave formed as gaseous molecules experience a rapid pressure increase.
The three main kinds of lightning are: created either inside one thundercloud, or between two clouds, or between a cloud and the ground. The 15 recognized observational variants include "heat lightning", which is seen but not heard, dry lightning, which causes many forest fires, and ball lightning, which is rarely observed scientifically.
Humans have deified lightning for millennia, and lightning inspired expressions like "Bolt from the blue", "Lightning never strikes twice", and "blitzkrieg" are common. In some languages, "Love at first sight" translates literally as "lightning strike".