11K views · 201 reactions | ⚡ Lightning strikes around the world about 100 times a second. It also puts out a heat five times hotter than the surface of the sun! But what is lightning, and where does it come from? Sophie and Marie explain in this video with the help of a Van De Graff Generator. Learn more about Lightning and our Lightning Room in our FAQs page: https://fal.cn/37NJZ | Scienceworks | Facebook

⛈️ Wednesday brought storms to much of Australia, predominantly through parts of the north and west. In this satellite loop, the red and orange dots indicate lightning strikes, showing where storms were active in the past day. In Queensland, storms moved across the southern inland, bringing falls of 20 mm - 50 mm to the Maranoa and Warrego district. Isolated totals reached 70 mm - 80 mm. Across the Northern Territory, a line of storms tracked from the Gulf of Carpentaria across the Top End in th