Lightning: Cloud discharge
This type of lightning, popularly called “sheet lightning” because it lights up the sky with a sheet of light, occurs within the thundercloud (intra-cloud lightning) or from one cloud to another (cloud-to-cloud lightning or inter-cloud lightning). It typically creates a diffuse illumination without
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