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Would ground to cloud lightning be as valid as cloud to ground lightning to determine if an attack is real lightning?
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Ground to Cloud lightning
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What is ground to cloud lightning?
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Types of Lightning
Lightning can strike the ground, the air, or inside clouds, but there are roughly 5 to 10 times more cloud flashes than cloud-to-ground flashes. Discover the different types of lightning!
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As in the return stroke of a lightning bolt?
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I mean yeah that seems legit, it's an actual type of lightning so if it has the properties of lightning, it's probably fair gameTypes of Lightning
Lightning can strike the ground, the air, or inside clouds, but there are roughly 5 to 10 times more cloud flashes than cloud-to-ground flashes. Discover the different types of lightning!
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They most likely have different speeds we could find on the inte
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Sure leader strikes and return strokes have different lightning speeds.
However unless situations specify, we presume lightning as moving at 440,000 m/s.
And yes ground to cloud is as good as cloud to ground.
Unless you want to argue a case of return stroke.
However unless situations specify, we presume lightning as moving at 440,000 m/s.
And yes ground to cloud is as good as cloud to ground.
Unless you want to argue a case of return stroke.
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The ground to cloud is actually usually faster and often goes up to like 1/3rd the speed of light iirc.
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Again, you refer to the part of return stroke right?
Not that a fictional character shoots one random stream of lightning right?
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Here's a simple way to explain return strokes if that helps: https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-science-return-stroke
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The return stroke yeah.
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OP is referring to this, not a return stroke.
Here's a video on them, and this channel has more examples
Here's a video on them, and this channel has more examples
