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    "en": "Lightning is the luminous manifestation accompanying a sudden electrical discharge which takes place from or inside a cloud or, less often, from high structures on the ground or from mountains (WMO, 2017). <br /> <p>WMO, 2017. <a href=\"https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/lightning.html\">International Cloud Atlas: Lightening. World Meteorological Organization (WMO)</a>. Accessed 26 November 2019.</p>"
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      "Lightning is a transient, high-current electric discharge with pathlengths measured in kilometres. The most common source of lightning is the electric charge separated in ordinary thunderstorm clouds. Well over half of all lightning discharges occur within the thunderstorm cloud and are called intracloud discharges (AMS, 2012). Lightning is a large electrical discharge caused by a thundercloud. It can occur within a cloud as intracloud lightning, between clouds as intercloud lightning, or between the cloud and the earth as cloud-to-ground lightning. A lightning discharge consists of pulses of electric current carried by electrons. The current is driven by a high voltage between the cloud’s charge centres or between them and the earth. During the development of a thundercloud, negative charge is accumulated in the hail-forming region at the central part of the cloud, and positive charge in the top region which consists of ice crystals (Finnish Meteorological Institute, 2019). Lightning strikes are classified into different types according to their own characteristics. The two most common types are cloud-to-ground lightning and cloud-to-cloud lightning (WMO, 2017). Ball lightening includes a fireball which sometimes appears after a lightning flash. Its diameter is usually between 10 and 20 cm and rarely attains 1 m. The fireball moves slowly through the air or along the ground, it may be distorted in passing through narrow places and usually vanishes suddenly with a violent explosion (WMO, 1992)."
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