Re: heat lightning

From: Ronald Wong (ronwong@inreach.com)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 15:29:19 PDT

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Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:29:19 -0700
From: Ronald Wong <ronwong@inreach.com>
Subject: Re: heat lightning

Roy asked:

>Question: Here in the Northern Plains, I've heard some
>lightning discharges referred to as "heat lightning".
>I was finally shown what they were talking about, and
>it appears to be discharges between clouds. What
>seemed odd was that even though it was occurring
>directly overhead, we did not hear thunder from it. I
>am puzzled as to why this was so. Any thoughts?

Lots of good physics going on here.

Check out:

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/13646/92860

It's an article by Dr. Keith C. Heidorn (meteorologist, writer, and "The
Weather Doctor" at http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/doctor.htm) and
it's a fine explanation of this phenomena.

ron

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