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Image credits: Furious Thoughts You can also use Google Earth to explore the planet and various cities, locations, and landscapes using coordinates.The program covers most of the globe (97% back ...
Sheet lightning is cloud-to-cloud lightning that exhibits a diffuse brightening of the surface of a cloud, caused by the actual discharge path being hidden or too far away. The lightning itself cannot be seen by the spectator, so it appears as only a flash, or a sheet of light. The lightning may be too far away to discern individual flashes.
Raijū is the companion of Raijin, the Shinto god of lightning. While the beast is generally calm and harmless, during thunderstorms it becomes agitated, and leaps about in trees, fields, and even buildings (trees that have been struck by lightning are said to have been scratched by raijū's claws).
Lightning Bird; Lindworm; Minokawa; Nephele; Nue; Odin's ravens, Huginn and Muninn; Ong (Washoe folklore) Pegasus – A winged horse [1] Peryton; Phoenix; Raiju; Roc – A gigantic bird similar to the Ziz [1] Sarimanok; Shahbaz; Sirens - bird women in Greek mythology, not to be confused with mermaids; Simurgh – A Persian bird similar to the ...
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In order to film sprites from Earth, special conditions must be present: 150–500 km (93–311 mi) of clear view to a powerful thunderstorm with positive lightning between cloud and ground, red-sensitive recording equipment, and a black unlit sky. [15]
A new study suggests that cloud-to-ground lightning likely provided the necessary material for the first organisms on Earth to form. All Life on Earth Might Have Started From Lightning, Scientists Say
Heat lightning; Zud, widespread livestock death, mainly by starvation, caused by climatic conditions; Hayfever; Asthma; Some related meteorological terms: weather front, gust front, bow echo, Atmospheric river