The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts the temperature of a lightning channel a...
A single bolt of lightning can heat the air around it to roughly five times the temperature of the surface of the Sun, and it is the violent expansion of that superheated air that creates the crack of thunder.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts the temperature of a lightning channel at about 30,000 degrees Celsius, and states plainly that...
Author: Space Daily
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