Is lightning Alternating or direct current?

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Lightning seems pretty "direct" to me! However, I'm not a scientist. Just my 2 cents.

Lightning is technically just static electricity so it would be DC.

Lightining is neither - it is an electrostatic discharge.

It goes back and forth along the same path until it dies out .

Well, it's complicated. The raw charge is DC, but quite often the top of the cloud charges up negative, and the bottom positive. Then depending on wind conditions, either the positive bottom or the negative top will spark over to the ground.

Usually it's the positive bottom, so most likely you get a bolt of positive DC. That makes analysis kinda unusual, because electricity is the flow of electrons from negative to positive, so a "positive bolt" seems to come down and branch an such, but the actual current flows upwards! It "comes down" because electricity focuses itself onto sharp edges, and the cloud is one big soft edge, but the ground usually has some sharp thing sticking up, like a house or tree or telephone pole.So the bolt SEEMS to come "down" as it naturally focuses to a specific place.

But the actual current flow is usually upwards. Weird, eh? So in that sense, it's "alternating" current.

NOT in the usual usage of alternating, meaning 60 cycles of sine wave per second, but in the psychological sense of it seeming to be a bolt going one way, but it's actually like two separate and alternating-direction events.

Here's a scientist's answer (usually D/C but can be single-cycle A/C): htm.

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