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True! Inside a cloud, water droplets get lifted by wind currents while ice and hail fall down. When these 2 flows meet, they rub against each other and cause static electricity.

The most common lightning strikes are between 2 places in the same cloud, but lightning can also strike between 2 clouds, from a cloud to the ground, or even from the ground up into a cloud!

It’s very hard to measure the temperature inside a lightning bolt, but scientists think they reach about 20,000 °C, which is about 3 times hotter than the surface of the Sun!

False. Lightning can strike the same place multiple times. In fact, lightning ionises (charges) the air as it passes, making repeat strikes much more likely for a few seconds.

Lake Maracaibo is the largest lake in South America, and it has lightning storms about 300 days per year.