Does lighting start from the clouds down to earth or earth up to the clouds???

Answer 1

first, why is this in the cars section?

lighting doesn't ever come from clouds - or the earth. it comes from the sun and from man-made objects
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lightning comes from both earth and the clouds.

negative energy in the clouds shoots towards positive energy in the ground, trees, tops of people's heads, whatever is there

there are many pictures you can look at that show small lightning bolts coming from many objects just before a cloud's negative energy connects with one of them. they look like little fingers trying to reach up to heaven or something - it's pretty cool

Answer 2

Earth up to the clouds.

Answer 3

lighting got two types, cloud to earth and cloud to cloud.

but most of people got struck by lighting from the current from the ground up to the clouds.

Answer 4

Earth to clouds , there was a programe of this on the Discovery channel the other week , until then I myself thought it was Clouds to Earth , Wrong!!

Answer 5

Lightning generally starts in the clouds with something called a stepped leader, which is how the charge establishes the path of least resistance. But the actual stroke goes from ground to cloud. This assumes a cloud-to-ground stroke, though. In a cloud-to-cloud discharge, the stroke never actually goes groundward.

Answer 6

Think its clouds to earth or the other way.

Answer 7

Convention says clouds to earth, but a physics teacher I know says earth to clouds is what really happens.

Answer 8

A positively charged 'leader' strike goes from the cloud to the ground, but it is not usually visible to humans. Once the leader reaches the ground, a large flow of electrical current travels from the ground, back up the leader to the cloud.

Answer 9

Clouds down to earth.

Answer 10

From the clouds, but there is an 'upstroke' that rises from the earth at the point of grounding.