Lightning

Lightning is an electrical discharge between the negatively charged clouds in the sky and the positively charged ground. It occurs most commonly during thunderstoms containing cumulonimbus clouds and the most reported strikes per year are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Benjamin Franklin is commonly associated with the discovery of the fact that lighting and electricity were the same, but a previous experiment was conducted in France a few weeks before his.

Positive and Negative Effects
Positive: Lighting cause nitrification for plants, allowing nitrogen in the air to chemically change into a nitrogen compound that plants can use.

Negative: Forest fires, property damage, death, severe electrocution, etc.


 * Note! Lightning does, in fact, strike the same place twice. So get to shelter.