That is electricity coming up from the ground when someone is standing by something like a tree. "The lightning energy is going to follow the water through the trunk into the roots in the ground.

To dramatically simplify things, lightning is a massive electrical arc that's unleashed when the difference in charge between the clouds and the ground overwhelms ... through, up to and including ...

they send out small bolts of ground to air lightning called streamers. If the streamers can make contact with the step leader, an electric current wave propagates up the channel as a bright pulse ...

If the charge builds up enough, it flows as a massive electrical current to the ground or to another cloud. This is like a shock or a really big spark and is what we call lightning. There are lots ...

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