Lightning Basics
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Lightning Basics
Basic information about lightning, from the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory.
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REM | • 🎯50K | on Instagram: "The post claims to show a rare "Lightning Cloudburst Ejecting Plasma" phenomenon, allegedly captured in the U.S. in early April 2025, but replies strongly suggest it's a fake or AI-generated video. Lightning doesn't move slowly or repeatedly strike the same spot, defying known physics — lightning travels at about 200 km/s. Scientifically, the image doesn't align with real lightning phenomena like ball lightning, which is a rare, luminous spherical object lasting se
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