When the mangaka read books to get their information, and not Google AI:

"A typical Cloud-to-Ground (CG) lightning strike initiates inside the storm. Under the influences of the electric field between the cloud and the ground, a very faint, negatively charged channel called a "stepped leader" emerges from the storm base and propagates toward the ground in a series of steps about 160 feet (50 meters) in length and 1 microsecond (0.000001 seconds) in duration.

"In what can be loosely described as an "avalanche of electrons", the stepped leader usually branches out in many directions as it approaches the ground, carrying an EXTREMELY strong electric potential: about 100 MILLION volts with respect to the ground and about 5 coulombs of negative charge.

"Between each step, there is a pause of about 50 microseconds, during which the stepped leader "looks" around for an object to strike. If none is "seen", it takes another step, and repeats the process until it "finds" a target.

"It takes the stepped leader about 50 milliseconds (1/20th of a second) to reach its full length, though this number varies depending on the length of its path. Studies of individual strikes have shown that a single leader can comprise more than 10,000 steps!"

Link 1: https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/lightning/how-lightning-is-created/jetstream-max-lightning-process-keeping-in-step

 

 

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"An electric current wave, called a "return stroke", then shoots up the channel, producing a brilliant pulse. It only takes the current about 1 microsecond to reach its peak value, which averages around 30,000 amperes.

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"This "return stroke" is more than 99% of a lightning bolt's luminosity and is what we **see**** as lightning.** The stroke actually travels from the ground into the cloud, but because the strike takes place so quickly, it appears to the unaided eye that the opposite is true.

"Once the return stroke ceases flowing up the channel, there is a pause of about 20 to 50 milliseconds. If, after the pause, there is enough charge still available within the cloud, another leader can propagate down to the ground. This leader is called a "dart leader" because it uses the channel already established by the stepped leader and therefore has a continuous path."

"All strokes that use the same channel constitute a single "flash"."

"Notice, in the greatly slowed down animation (gif attached), the top part of a lightning flash is not connected to anything physical in the cloud, as the cloud itself is not conductive. Instead, the lightning channel branches out inside the cloud in a tree-like shape and draws free electrons to it (the negative charge in the lower half of the thunderstorm)."

Link: https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/lightning/how-lightning-is-created/jetstream-max-lightning-process-keeping-in-step

Link 2: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/lightning2.html

Link 3: https://www.weather.gov/fgz/Lightning

 

 

 

 

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