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the sky's tantrum, complete with five-mile sparks and a sound that arrives late
bolt heatLightning is five times hotter than the sun's surface
thunder lagLight wins the race, so sound arrives late
earth's pulseRoughly 2,000 storms rage worldwide every moment
nitrogen factoryBolts forge fertilizer, feeding plants from thin air
updraft engineAir rockets upward fast enough to suspend hailstones