That behind me is called a storm cloud or a cumulonimbus and I'm going to tell you about it because it's going to blow your brains

That behind me is called a storm cloud or a cumulonimbus and I'm going to tell you about it because it's going to blow your brains. Cumulonimbus clouds are the only clouds that produce lightning and thunder. How do they do that? I'm going to tell you. So these clouds are massive. We're talking several miles tall. Several miles tall. And inside it is pure chaos. Very, very strong winds blowing very hard and circulating lots of ice particles around in the form of hailstones. A These hailstones are being buffeted around and knocking into each other and in doing so they knock electrons off each other. The lighter particles stay at the top of the cloud and the heavier ones come down to the bottom. And as those electrons are scraped off there is a differential in the charge between the top and bottom of the cloud where the heavier particles are. So the bottom of the cloud becomes very negatively charged and that in turn creates a differential between the charge of the surface of the earth and the bottom of the cloud. When that becomes too great the charge has to be redistributed, balanced out, and that happens as the electrons flow down to the ground in the form of lightning. Lightning is just a bolt of electrons, and it's that charge being equalized between the cloud and the ground. So what is thunder? Thunder is the immensely loud sound of air being superheated by the bolt of lightning. So as the lightning strikes, the air is rapidly expanded, and all of those air molecules Smash into each other creating a that is lightning that is thunder and it happens every day in those. Madness. Follow me for more mind-blowing stuff like this