How Does Lightning Create A Wildfire? Pyrocumulonimbus clouds have ice particles in them and can develop into thunderstorms, according to Wildfire Today. The clouds resemble an anvil shape, and at the top of the anvil, lightning strikes the ground, potentially starting another fire on dry vegetation; this is called dry lightning. Are you safe from
Can Lightning Travel Through Sand? So what is this thing? Incredibly, lightning can and does in fact create something amazing when it hits sand, but the conditions have to be perfect. When it hits a sandy beach high in silica or quartz and the temperature goes beyond 1800 degrees Celsius, the lighting can fuse the
Can Lightning Travel Through Air? In the early stages of development, air acts as an insulator between the positive and negative charges in the cloud and between the cloud and the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity