What is the temperature or example of how hot lightning is?
2007-09-06 10:45:38 · 9 answers · asked by DEE-TUH-DEE 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
A bolt of lightning can travel at a speed of 45 km/s (100,000 mph, 160,000 km/h).
It can reach temperatures approaching 28,000 °C (50,000 °F), hot enough to fuse soil or sand into glass channels.
2007-09-06 10:51:45 · answer #1 · answered by appsptspcl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bolt of lightning can travel at a speed of 160,000 km/h.It can reach temperatures approaching 28,000 °C, hot enough to fuse soil or sand into glass channels.
An average bolt of lightning carries a negative electric current of 40 kA, although some bolts can be up to 120 kA, and transfers a charge of five coulombs and 500 MJ, or enough energy to power a 100 watt lightbulb for just under two months. The voltage depends on the length of the bolt: with the dielectric breakdown of air being three million volts per meter, this works out at about one billion (thousand million) volts for a 300m (1,000 foot) lightning bolt. With an electric current of 100 kA, this gives a power of 100 trillion (million million) watts.
2007-09-06 18:32:51 · answer #2 · answered by _Me_ 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
scientificly lightning is 6x the SURFACE of the sun (not the sun)
makeing it about 54,000 degrees Fehrenheit
-now how people survive well As long as the lightning does not pass through the heart or spinal column, the victim of a lightning strike will most likely survive.
for example Roy Sulliven currently holds the record of being stuck by lighting and surviving the most in a certain amount of time if i'm not mistaken it was 7 times between 1942 and 1977 he died when he was stuck an 8th time when it passed though his heart
sorry science nerd
2007-09-06 10:55:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of the larger bolts of lightning studied by the National Weather Service have had temperature measurements as high as 50,000 F.
2007-09-06 10:52:06 · answer #4 · answered by blklightz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is 11,000 degrees, lightning is five time hotter than that, so that puts it at 55,000 degrees. It's that sudden expansion of heat which causes thunder.
2007-09-06 13:26:38 · answer #5 · answered by trey98607 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lightning happens when voltage potential comes to 3milion volts per meter, then it will turn the air to a conductive plasma to let the electrons travel through it.
that plasma ionizing the air.
so when you have sparks in the microwave oven, don't eat that food lest it's poisonous.
don't know about the temperature.
2007-09-06 10:52:04 · answer #6 · answered by Default 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard it's around 30,000 Degrees... -which makes it even hotter than the Sun! :0
2007-09-06 10:53:55 · answer #7 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 12,000,000,000 Watts
2007-09-06 10:50:46 · answer #8 · answered by Dan D Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You dont want to get close enough to find out
2007-09-06 11:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by lil n 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's like as hot as me and that's really hot!!!!!!! lol
2007-09-06 10:48:56 · answer #10 · answered by Cutie Pie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋