Can Lightning Travel Sideways? Perhaps the most dangerous lightning appears as “bolts from the blue” — lightning that begins upward, but then moves sideways and then downward to hit the ground as much as three miles from a thunderstorm. About 90 percent of lightning occurs inside clouds and is not visible to the casual observer.
Can Lightning Travel Horizontally? Bolt from the blue: A positive lightning bolt which originates within the updraft of the storm, typically 2/3rds of the way up, travels horizontally for many miles, then strikes the ground. Is lightning directional? The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see
Can Lightning Travel Up? Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up? The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in
How Fast Does Ball Lightning Travel? It almost always moves, has a top speed of about three meters per second and floats about one meter above the ground. The motion can be counter to the prevailing breeze and can change direction erratically. Ball lightning may last up to 10 seconds, whereupon the ball extinguishes either