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To: WxMan2000
Heat lightning? More common out west is my understanding.
1,648 posted on 08/14/2003 4:31:00 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
A big misnomer. What is referred to as heat lightning is merely lightning from a distant thunderstorm...a thunderstorm far enough away that you cannot hear the thunder.
1,673 posted on 08/14/2003 4:34:07 PM PDT by WxMan2000
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To: swarthyguy
"Heat lightning? More common out west is my understanding. "

We see it in Tennessee. But I thought Heat lightening was primarily an upper atmosphere event.

Possibilities...


1,714 posted on 08/14/2003 4:40:48 PM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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