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Indicating the causes of lightning, describe the threats associated with it.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Climatology

Lightning is a giant electrical discharge that neutralises charge built up inside a cumulonimbus cloud — within the cloud, between clouds, or between cloud and ground.

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  • Causes of Lightning
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