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heat lightning

noun

Etymology

So called because it is common on hot summer nights and is sometimes popularly thought to be caused by heat rather storms.

Definitions

  1. Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g.…

    Lightning and/or thunder which the observer attributes to heat rather than a storm (e.g. because the storm/rain is too distant to be seen, or because there is no rain, as with dry lighting).

    • The beginning of a watery diarrheal event is said to be marked by a great deal of noise, characterized as […] rumbling (tzilelet 'rumbling sound of heat lightning in the rainy season'), […]

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