Greatest PD MET

An unusual question: if you think about the thunderstorms as batteries (with a positive and negative end) suspended in the sky, the greatest difference in voltage will be between difference ends of the battery (different parts of the same cloud) or the battery and the earth (the thunderstorm and the earth.)

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Where is the greatest potential difference found in a thunderstorm?