Heat Lightning

Now that she was back in the town of her childhood standing on a corner across from the village triangle of green a small pyramid of luggage at her feet amy s one clear thought.

Heat lightning. The term heat lightning is commonly used to describe lightning from a distant thunderstorm just too far away to see the actual cloud to ground flash or to hear the accompanying thunder. Amy norton comes home for a week s visit to her hometown in michigan the town is unnamed but must owe a lot to albion where helen hull grew up. Heat lightning also known as silent lightning summer lightning or dry lightning mainly used in the american southwest. Reflections of more distant lightning.

Heat lightning in british english. Helen hull was once a well known american novelist and heat lightning her sixth book was a book of the month club selection for april 1932. Not to be confused with dry thunderstorms which are also often called dry lightning is a misnomer used for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not appear to have accompanying sounds of thunder. The plot is simple.

Amy norton comes home for a week s visit to her hometown in michigan the town is unnamed but must owe a lot to albion where helen hull grew up. Its color is believed to be due to the refraction of light in the atmosphere. Helen hull was once a well known american novelist and heat lightning her sixth book was a book of the month club selection for april 1932. Flashes of light seen near the horizon esp on hot evenings.

The plot is simple. Heat lightning intermittent flashes of reddish or orange light near the horizon usually seen on a hot summer evening and unaccompanied by thunder. The term heat lightning is commonly used to describe lightning from a distant thunderstorm which is too far away to hear the accompanying thunder. On friday the uk recorded the hottest august day since 2003 and the heatwave is expected to continue for the rest of the week.

Now that she was back in the town of her childhood standing on a corner across from the village triangle of green a small pyramid of luggage at her feet amy s one clear thought. Heat lightning is a term referring to lightning seen from a thunderstorm that is too far away for the accompanying thunder to be heard. While many people incorrectly think that heat lightning is a specific type of lightning it is simply the light produced by a distant thunderstorm. But the hot weather is set to turn as a rare.

Heat lightning is thought to be the reflection of distant lightning on clouds.