A bolt of lightning is approximately five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
Why it is true
While the sun's surface has a temperature of about five thousand five hundred degrees Celsius, a lightning bolt can reach thirty thousand degrees Celsius, heating the surrounding air so rapidly that it creates a sonic shockwave.
Source: Meteorology
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