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How hot can the air directly inside a lightning bolt get?
About 30,000 degrees Celsius
Background
The air inside a lightning bolt gets about 30,000 degrees Celsius hot. That is five times as hot as the surface of the sun. This is why lightning shines so bright and cracks so loud. The air around the bolt expands in an instant, and we hear that as thunder.
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