sheet lightning
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English
Noun
sheet lightning (usually uncountable, plural sheet lightnings)
- A broad flash of lightning, with no visible bolt, due to reflection.
- 1812, General view of the agriculture, state of property, and improvements in the county of Dumfries:
- In most very warm days in summer the thermometer stands above 70 degrees on the scale of Fahrenheit, about the centre of the county; in the summer of 1811, it stood repeatedly above 80°; and on the 25th of May, 1807, during the time when the sheet lightning of tropical regions appeared, about three in the afternoon, it stood at 92° in the shade within three miles of Moffat!
- 1890 January, William Marriott, “Second report of the thunderstorm committee”, in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 16, number 73:
- The occurrence of sheet lightning in a particular district did not necessarily involve that a thunderstorm was experienced there, for it frequently happened that the storm was a long way off.
Translations
broad flash of lightning
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