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Yes, That Lightning Is Going Up, Not Down

March 22, 2025

When electrical charges build up in the atmosphere, they need to discharge that energy. When they do it is rapid and that is how we get lightning, but it doesn’t always seem to come from the cloud to the ground, sometimes it is in reverse. Here is the science behind it.

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