What are shelf clouds and how do they form during lightning and thunderstorms?
The shelf clouds were accompanied by blasts of lightning and hailstones, some of which measured 5 centimetres in diameter.
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The more violently wind shear destabilises a storm system, the more lightning is unleashed, as differences between positively and negatively charged regions of a cloud grow more dramatic.