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Positive lightning is particularly dangerous, because it frequently strikes away from the rain core, either ahead or behind the thunderstorm. It can strike as far as 5 or 10 miles (8 or 16 kilometers) from the storm, in areas that most people do not consider to be a lightning-risk area. â¢ During a thunderstorm, each flash of cloud-to-ground lightning is a potential killer.
For every 4 seconds between the flash and the rumble, the thunderstorm is 1 mile away. Here is a slow motion video of lightning. Watch closely and you will see the step leaders heading down from the cloud. These are rarely visible and last only a few thousandths of a second.