A single lightning bolt can reach nearly 50,000°F (about 30,000 K) — roughly five times hotter than the surface of the Sun, which sits at only about 10,000°F.
You'll learn why such extreme heat is possible (all the energy is crammed into a channel a couple of centimetres wide), how thunder is born from that superheated air, and why lightning out-heats a star without melting the sky.
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