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Lightning heats the surrounding air to

  • A.300 deg cent
  • B.3000 deg cent
  • C.30000 deg cent
  • D.300000 deg cent

Answer: C

Lightning heats the air to about 30,000 °C.

That is roughly five times the temperature of the sun's surface. The air expands explosively at that heat, and the shock wave it sends out is what we hear as thunder.

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