Selected-By: dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu (David Sewell)

The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

> Oracle, who knows more about weather than Willard Scott,
>       who always knows when to take out the umbrella,
>       who can accually tell the different between each snowflake.
>
> Oracle, I'm currently sitting in the middle of a small electrical
> storm, and the question occured to me:  What causes lightning?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} God rubbing the universe on his head and sticking it to the wall.