Earth's Lightning: Nature's Electric Recharge

Lightning strikes Earth over 8 million times every single day. That's about 100

bolts hitting somewhere on the planet every second. The reason most of us never see

them is because 70 percent of strikes hit oceans where nobody lives. Each bolt can reach

temperatures of 30,000 degrees Celsius, which is actually five times hotter than the surface

of the sun. And here's the wildest part: all those strikes happening right now are helping

maintain Earth's electrical charge, basically keeping our planet balanced like a giant battery

constantly recharging itself through storms.