Sky lightning.

[ak1]

That's what we call it around here. No Rain, just watching the sky light up like a Christmas tree, thunder & lightning too, but nothing hitting the ground. Haven't seen this in at least five years. It's great fun to watch. 

 

[daveomak]

We were on a trip to Kansas, at Mt. Rushmore, and I saw it for the first time..... The ONLY time I could see lightening and not hear it... Really weird feeling.....

 

[dirtsailor2003]

We call it sheet lightning here. Typically in or above the clouds, but when it's below the clouds it shoots out sideways making a sheet across the sky. We used to see it here quite a bit but now it mainly happens when we are in eastern Oregon.

 

[eman]

The old folks used to call it heat lightning, Really no such thing, What you are seeing is called cloud to cloud  lightning (CTC) vs the normal lightning we see  which is cloud to ground lightning (CTG).

 A really strong CTC storm is what puts on the fantastic light shows we see at night during the summer.

 

[dave17a]

 
The old folks used to call it heat lightning, Really no such thing, What you are seeing is called cloud to cloud  lightning (CTC) vs the normal lightning we see  which is cloud to ground lightning (CTG).

 A really strong CTC storm is what puts on the fantastic light shows we see at night during the summer.

Don't ruin it. Tired of tech stuff. Always called it heat lightnin'. Haven't seen it in a while though.

Ha thats a good smiley face thing

 

[GaryHibbert]

 
Don't ruin it. Tired of tech stuff. Always called it heat lightnin'. Haven't seen it in a while though.

Ha thats a good smiley face thing

Yeah, we always called it heat lightning too.  Saw it all the time when I was a kid, but haven't seen it in years lately.

Gary

 

[bluewhisper]

How about the violet-colored lightning that goes up out of a cloud and branches out and up like a hand extending its fingers? I've only seen that twice. Once was the storm that caused the Shadyside flood in 1990 - the storm happened to pass by about 20 miles to the south, so I could see it from a side view.

 

[jirodriguez]

That is one thing I miss from living in Taos, NM - all the weather from the Pacific would pile up against the Rocky Mountains and put on some spectacular thunder storms! Some was cloud-to-cloud some was to the ground, but always made for a fantastic show. We use to also get what they called "walking rain" - it would rain and thunder like crazy over a square mile or so, then the rain would draw back up into the clouds, the clouds would shift over a few miles then dump again. The area in-between would stay bone dry.

 

[inkjunkie]

Monsoon season in AZ always bought out some cool light shows. Grew up in Jersey, spent every Friday night with my Dad and Uncle George at Pine Brook Speedway. Used to lean on the rail behind the bleachers and watch the "heat" lightning. Not much in the way of lighting here in the Spokane area. Storms will sometimes roll thru at night...thunder is loud and long enough to wake the dead.. .

 

[jcbigler]

 
The old folks used to call it heat lightning, 

When I was growing up we used to call it heat lighting also, because it always happened on hot summer nights...usually followed by violent thunderstorms a few hours later. 

Being a ham radio operator, a trained Skywarn storm spotter, and having access to multiple real-time Nexrad radar apps on my laptop, phone and iPad, I don't pay much attention to the weather anymore. Unless there's a high probability of tornadic activity

 

[chef jimmyj]

 
How about the violet-colored lightning that goes up out of a cloud and branches out and up like a hand extending its fingers? I've only seen that twice. Once was the storm that caused the Shadyside flood in 1990 - the storm happened to pass by about 20 miles to the south, so I could see it from a side view.

They're called " Sprites ". I once watched a a single huge high rising Cumulominbus cloud, Dad called them Thunderheads, from several miles away, in an otherwise clear sky, a short time after sundown. There were Sprites, CTG Lightning and spectacular Lightning within the cloud. Best show ever!...JJ

 

 

[thegambler19]

Haven't seen one of those heat lightning things in a while. We had plenty of those a few years back, right now there were little to none. They're like nature's own fireworks' show.

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