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a five-mile electric scribble that heats the air hotter than the sun's surface
sun-beating heatChannels hit 50,000°F, five times the sun's surface
thunder's sourceAir explodes outward, the bang is its shockwave
strike countEarth gets roughly 8 million bolts daily
speedReturn stroke travels at 270,000 miles per hour
survivorsAbout 90 percent of strike victims live