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How are lightning and thunderstorm intensity linked?

Is the ratio of IC to CG lightning relevant? Yes. Primarily, severe storms tend to have very few cloud-to-ground (CG) strikes. … Bruning, 2011: Lightning Activity in a Hail-Producing Storm Observed with Phased-Array Radar. Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 1809–1825, doi: 10.1175/2010MWR3574.1. …
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What causes 'positive' lightning to be rarer, higher charged, and longer lasting than 'negat...

Positive lightning is indeed very interesting. … In addition, there is also a type of lightning called "bipolar" lightning, which changes its polarity. …
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