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Cloud to ground lightning strikes often contain repeated discharges down the same path in rapid succession following the first return strokethese secondary return strokes often make a lightning strike seem to pulse or flicker on and off. Upward lightning or ground to cloud lightning is a lightning flash which originates from the top of a grounded object and propagates upward from this point. Spider lightning refers to long horizontally traveling flashes often seen on the underside of stratiform clouds. We also found some specific characteristics in the diurnal variation of integrated field intensity of sferics ifis for seven thunderstorms.
If you could make the clouds and the earth invisible allowing you to see an entire cloud to ground lightning strike from top to bottom you would see. A related term heat lightning is lightning or lightning induced illumination that is too far away for thunder to be heard. Cloud to cloud lightning refers to lightning discharges occurring between cloud areas without contacting the ground. This type of lightning can be triggered by a preceding lightning flash or it may initiate entirely on its own.
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So in a loose sense a cloud doesnt truly have to be a cumulonimbus at least historically. Lightning by cumulonimbus clouds and to measure its lightning channel conductivity from the relaxation time of its electrostatic discharge. Which clouds can produce lighting and thunder. Precipitation reaching the ground is not an absolute requirement for a storm cloud to produce lightning.