Eli5: How do you measure the temperature of lighting bolts?

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Can the temperature of a lightning bolt be measured if there is no resistance (a tree, the ground)? If so, what temperature are lightning bolts?

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It’s not like lightning bolts travel through vacuum, there is air.

If you get a spectrometer to look at the lightning bolt you can deduce the temperature through the wavelength where the maximum is.

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