What is heat lightning and why/when does it occur?
2007-08-24 02:22:24 · 6 answers · asked by SnakeEater 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Heat lightning is a old term given to the flashes seen during warm summer nights. Some people didn't know or realize that it was just lightning being seen from a distant storm which sometimes was over the horizon or at least not able to be seen. Since they couldn't see the storm and couldn't hear the thunder of it since it so far away they thought it was most likely a different form of lightning that was caused by the heat of day rather than from a thunderstorm.
We now know it is just plain lightning from a very distant thunderstorm and that there is no difference at all.
2007-08-24 02:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by Water 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've seen this lightning in australia at night and it keep on flashing with lightning all the time. They occour in 40 degree heat and when i goes night a cools down to 15 degree the clouds will spark of lightning with out thunder in a distants.
2007-08-24 11:15:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a lightning from a distant(over 50 miles away) isolated thunderstorm which form on hot summer nights and do not produce rain.
2007-08-24 13:49:48 · answer #3 · answered by Arasan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just lightning you see from a distant storm!
2007-08-24 09:29:09 · answer #4 · answered by bwb1957 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as heat lighting. It is from a storm somewhere.
2007-08-24 09:32:09 · answer #5 · answered by The Voice of Reason 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-08-24 09:26:55 · answer #6 · answered by Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋