![]() ![]() The process is similar to rubbing your feet across the carpet on a dry January day and vindictively shocking someone (who totally deserved it, I’m sure). Lightning is produced by the discharge of static electricity that builds-up in and around a thunderstorm due to precipitation and ice crystals moving around inside. This era is also the one that brought us wildly unhelpful ideas such as “open all of your windows during a tornado” and one even worse, “lightning strike victims are still electrified after being struck, so you should just let ‘em die instead of reviving them.” The concept of heat lightning is a relic of a time when there wasn’t much widespread knowledge of how different weather events occurred. ![]() The term refers to distant, sky-filling flashes of lightning on the dark horizon that often seem to form from nothing-residents confidently explain to the uninitiated that the lightning forms from the warm, muggy air itself instead of a thunderstorm, hence the name. Heat lightning is a term mostly used in the south, where nighttime thunderstorms are commonplace in the warm months. The most well-known part of these summertime thunderstorms is a phenomenon known as “heat lightning,” which doesn’t really exist. One of the best ways to spend a summer evening is to stand outside and watch a distant storm, the soft rumbles of thunder distracting you from the mosquitoes eating you alive. ![]()
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