Lightning can occur between opposite charges within the thunderstorm cloud (Intra Cloud Lightning) or between opposite charges in the cloud and on the ground (Cloud-To-Ground Lightning).

We get intra-cloud or cloud-to-cloud lightning when the negatively charged bottom of the cloud is attracted to the positively charged top.

Intra-Cloud lightning is just cloud-to-cloud lightning where the bolts are hidden from view. They usually look like bright sheets of flashing light since the lightning bolt is happening inside the ...

The most common types of lightning, comprising the vast majority of strikes, are intra-cloud, cloud to ground, cloud to air and cloud to cloud. Of these, intra-cloud is by far the most common.

Most times, the lightning occurs inside the clouds, also known as intra-cloud lightning. Other times, objects at the surface, such as trees or houses, act as a positive charge.

Intra-cloud lightning is sometimes called sheet lightning because it lights up the sky with a 'sheet' of light. Cloud to Cloud: Lightning occurs between two or more separate clouds.

A cousin of CC lightning is intra-cloud lightning (IC) which is simply lightning discharges that occur within a singular cloud. Cloud-to-air (CA) lightning forms higher up in the atmosphere near ...

Intra-cloud lightning: Lightning that is embedded within a cloud that lights up as a sheet of luminosity during the flash. Cloud-to-cloud lightning: Lightning that strikes from one cloud to ...

Lightning is very common during summer months and with a temperature that’s 5 times hotter than the sun, it can travel up to 200,000 mph from the cloud to the ground in a matter of seconds.

The atmosphere is a great insulator, but when the strength of the electric field overwhelms the insulating capacity of the atmosphere, intra-cloud lightning occurs.

In the case of intra-cloud lightning the positive and negative charges are both within the cloud, thus the lightning stays confined within the cloud too.