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About 90% of people in the US who are struck actually survive

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How hot is lightning?

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Lightning triggers 75,000 forest fires in the US each year

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Over 2000 people a year are killed by lightning

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Thunder storms are caused by small electrically charged particles

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Lightning is around 27,000 degrees Celsius. That is six times hotter than the surface of the sun

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Negative charges build at the base of the cloud, and the electrons near the ground are repelled. This leaves the ground and the objects on it with a positive charge.

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What colour is lightning?

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Cumulonimbus clouds discharge electricity, which produces thunder and lightning

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lightning is caused by a buildup of static electricity inside a storm cloud.

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If a person is struck by lightning it can cause cardiac arrest, severe burns, permanent brain damage, personality change, and memory loss

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Lightning helps fertilize plants, dissolve nitrogen in water, and produces ozone

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What colour is lightning? Its almost always white but the three most common colours, aside from white, are blue, yellow, and violet

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How hot is lightning? Lightning is around 27,000 degrees Celsius.