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If a lightning strike is a sufficient distance from the observer, sound from the strike will not be heard. These silent bolts are called heat lightning. Lightning bolts produce thunder, but the thunder sound does not travel all the way to the observer if the observer is too far away.
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Heat lightning is a name given to a flash in the night sky that occurs when there is a lightning-producing thunderstorm very far away from the observer. Since the storm is often so far away that the lightning bolt itself isn't observed, and...
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Heat lightning is not a unique form of lightning, but normal thunderstorm lightning that flashes too far away from the observer for its thunder to be heard. ... Heat lightning are visible flashes of distant bolts that have no thunder sound accompanying them. It is not a unique form of lightning,
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USATODAY.com Latest News ... Heat lightning: Flashes too far away for observer to hear the thunder. Like sheet lightning, these flashes are created by lightning bolts, but are in thunderstorms more than 10 miles away. Trees, buildings and urban noise can cut this distance to less than five miles.
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A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers. ... As heat lightning flashes in the distance, Olga transforms herself into a beautiful woman and says goodbye to George, who kisses her. While Olga is distracted, Myra sneaks out with Steve. ... Overview for Heat Lightning (1934)
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Miles away, Chris Larabee stood on the deck at the back of his house and watched the same heat lightning on the horizon. There was a bottle of whiskey on the rail in front of him, and he held a glass in his hand, but the glass was empty, and the bottle was nearly full.
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For a long time I have been debating this point with friends: I say there is no such thing as heat lightning. I say it is just lightning occurring far off in the sky, and all we see is the glow from the bolt. Who's right?
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Format: Microsoft Reader ... File Size: 353k Pages: 400 ... Heat Lightning Cover...
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