Can there be lightning strikes without making noise in the sky at night? Because I saw exactly that last night

Question

If so how often would they happen? And what do they exactly look like and the color?

Answer 1

that wasn't Lighting.... it was an ALIEN...... RUN!

Answer 2

Lightning dosent make a sound. Thunder does. Lightning can be blue, gree, purple, orange, or even a tan color. It just depends on how your eyes react to the bright light. It dosent happen often until the storm is far away since the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound. If the storm is far away you cant hear the thunder but you can see the lightning.

Answer 3

Lightning can strike without the sound of thunder. Lightning can travel quite the distance from the storm and even can be seen striking miles in front of behind a storm. Because the distance lightning can travel, sometimes the sound of thunder doesn't make it as far, or is so settle, you don't even notice it.

Answer 4

What you saw is called "heat lightning." It's just plain ol' regular lightning, but so far away that the thunder caused by lightning can't reach you. Heat lightning often shows different colors because its light passes through much more of the atmosphere before reaching you.

Answer 5

Ok well the noise that you hear after lighnting strikes is thunder OK. Secondly if the actual storm is far from the ground, one would not be abel to hear the thunder. All thunder is, is the sound of particles hitting one another when the heat from the lightning bolt is executed. So its impossible to have lightning without thunder.

Answer 6

They did make noise. But if the lightning is more than about 5 miles away the sound gets so dispersed that it can be detected as a long rumble at most, just many echoes of the original boom, and sometimes not at all. Also, if it is high in the atmosphere the sound transfers poorly and may be dispersed even more. You may hear nothing. High in the atmosphere the lightning may appear different colors than white or yellow, be forked differently, and appear as different shapes.
If it is close you hear it as a boom. If it is a few miles away you hear it as many rumbling echoes of the original boom. If it is many miles away the rumbles get scattered so much you can't detect a sound at all.

Answer 7

Lightning is always associated with thinder.

The likely reason you did not hear the thunder is that the atmospheric conditions were such that the sound refracted away from you. This happens when the temperature gradient of the air is such that the air density where you are and where the lightning struck are sufficiently different.

Answer 8

If you get cloud to cloud lightning or cloud to ground lightning that is far away, you can easily see it but not hear it. The sound pressure of the thunder that is created will drop off proportional to the inverse square of the distance (1/r^2)--imagine the sound expanding into a big sphere.

Answer 9

Iths Called 'heat lightning" it is non dangerous and stays within the clouds. it usually has no discernable "bolt" juist a slow flash of light in the night sky. This is mailny cause by 1. heat, and clouds condensing. the rising heat sweels the clouds that are cooling from the night temperatures and sometimes creat a flash of light because of friction. there is usually no thunder or rain associated with this.

Answer 10

Darkness, stars. the yellow moon, twinkling stars, and white clouds floating by utilizing. It supplies an air of mystery of mystique. Your question reminds me of the nursery rhyme....... Twinkle , twinkle little action picture star, How i ask your self what you're, Up above the international so extreme Like a diamond contained in the sky!

Answer 11

I think there can be heat lightning, it can light up the sky... but if you are being sarcastic and it was fireworks, good job, you got me