I mean current flow or more exactly electrons flow when the circut is closed but when lightening strikes there isn’t any closed circuit so shouldn’t there be positively charged particles out there and if there are then how do they become neutral again?
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There is a circuit completed, just temporarily. Similar to static discharge, arc flash or other phenomena, the air itself can be your conductor if the difference in potential (voltage) is great enough. Lightning happens when you have enough potential between the source and where it strikes. It’s not a sustained transfer because as soon as you start moving electrons, you are dissipating the potential.
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