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What is Lightning?
Lightning is a release of static electricity in the atmosphere, usually noted during severe storms of rain or dust, and often during volcanic activity. Lightning can form through either convection events (which is more common in large land masses such as USA and Africa) and frontal systems (which is more common in temperate climates such as UK).

A single strike of lightning can contain one hundred million volts of charge, can reach temperatures of approximately twenty-eight thousand degrees centigrade and exceed five miles in length as it searches for a route to earth. The enormous electrical force of a lightning strike generates secondary effects such as electro-magnetic pulse (EMP); the scale of which can damage electrical equipment and electrically stored data over a vast area.

Considering these facts it is unsurprising that the effects of lightning are often devastating.

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