What causes lightning?
Lightning is a discharge of electricity that occurs in a cloud, and makes it act like a battery cell. The top of a rain cloud becomes positively charged, and the bottom negatively charged. When the difference is high enough, a giant spark jumps from top to bottom of the cloud and sometimes to earth as well which is negatively charged. This is the lightning that you see.
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