Lightning is hotter than the Sun
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The bolt heats air to thirty thousand degrees.
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0:00 A bolt of lightning can be several times
0:02 hotter than the surface of the Sun.
0:04 In the lightning channel,
0:05 the air is heated almost instantly to around
0:08 thirty thousand degrees.
0:09 That sudden,
0:10 violent expansion of superheated air is
0:12 exactly what we hear as a clap of thunder.