Question

how many percentage of lightning flashes are limited in the sky​

Answer 1

Thunder starts as a shockwave from the explosively expanding lightning channel when a large current causes rapid heating. However, it is possible that you might see lightning and not hear the thunder because it was too far away. Sometimes this is called “heat lightning” because it occurs most often in the summer.

Answer 2

Around the world, there are over 3,000,000 flashes every day. That's around 44 strikes every second.

Explanation:

As illustrated in the map, lightning is not uniformly distributed over the globe. The typical duration of lightning on Earth is 0.2 seconds, made up of a series of much shorter flashes (strokes) of around 60 to 70 microseconds, and the frequency is approximately 44 (5) times per second, or nearly 1.4 billion flashes per year.

Three most prevalent forms of lightning:

• Cloud to ground,
• cloud to cloud, and
• cloud to air are the