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During lighting,do charge flow from ground to clouds or from clouds to ground?

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A lightning starts as clouds collide and a channel of negative charges makes its path towards the ground. In response to the discharge of negative charges coming from the cloud base, currents of positive charges start moving upward from the ground.
So the current flows from the ground to cloud.

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