{"id":245919,"date":"2026-10-25T01:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T06:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting"},"modified":"2026-10-25T01:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T06:08:17","slug":"what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting","title":{"rendered":"What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5BJIiX9_c_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating article which discusses researchers\u2019 explorations into why lightning occurs, including a recent hypothesis that cosmic rays trigger lightning cascades within Earth\u2019s clouds!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature\u2019s oldest mysteries \u2014 and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating article which discusses researchers\u2019 explorations into why lightning occurs, including a recent hypothesis that cosmic rays trigger lightning cascades within Earth\u2019s clouds! Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature\u2019s oldest mysteries \u2014 and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}