How does static create in the clouds(lightning)?
HEORIES OF LIGHTNING FORMATION One of the most powerful forces in nature, lightning was once magical, mysterious, and misunderstood. Historically, myth and legend accounted for lightning with stories of angry gods and heroes. Today, meteorologists use lightning as a tool for analyzing and forecasting the intensity and movement of thunderstorms. While lightning is still a little mysterious, it is now understand enough to know how to prepare for it. Of course, every once in a while lightning does still put on a magic show. Lightning occurs when there is a charge separation in the cloud. As a thunderstorm grows, electrical charges build up within the cloud, with positive charges at the top, and negative charges at the bottom. Oppositely charged particles gather at the ground below the cloud. The attraction between positive and negative charges quickly grows strong enough to overcome the air’s resistance to electrical flow. Soon after, the rapid and staggered advancement of a shaft of this
