Lightning

Meteorology is the study of the earth's atmosphere and especially the study of weather. A meteorologist is a person who studies the atmosphere.
One of nature's displays of electrical forces is the lightning storm. A lightning stroke is a brief but large current of negative charge that travels from cloud to ground along a "wire" of air molecules that have been ionized or ripped apart. The awesome power of the lightning stroke originates in the thunderstorm cloud where charges somehow become separated. There are several complicated theories that try to explain the actual mechanism of this ch…