• Question: What causes lightning?

    Asked by sport101 to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Hayley Evers-King

      Hayley Evers-King answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Static electricity builds up in clouds – like it does it you rub a balloon against your hair. Eventually so much can build up that it sparks – this is lightning!

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