{"id":71,"date":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/how-lightning-gets-so-hot\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:52:35","slug":"how-lightning-gets-so-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/how-lightning-gets-so-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"How lightning gets so hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bolt can briefly heat the air around it to temperatures far above the surface of the Sun.<\/p>\n<h2>A huge spark<\/h2>\n<p>Lightning is a giant electrical discharge that forces a narrow channel of air to extreme temperatures.<\/p>\n<h2>Hotter than the Sun<\/h2>\n<p>That channel can reach around 30,000 degrees Celsius, while the surface of the Sun is about 5,500 degrees.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A single bolt is hotter than the surface of the Sun for a moment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Why thunder happens<\/h2>\n<p>The air expands explosively as it heats and creates the shock wave we hear as thunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bolt can briefly heat the air around it to temperatures far above the surface of the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnmorefacts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}