With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: as a thunderstorm moves through an ...

Flashes of lightning that illuminate entire clouds are known as sheet lighting or heat lightning. Basically, both types of phenomena are one and the same. The only difference between the two is that ...

Slide 1 of 3, Sheet lightning in a cloudy sky, Sheet lightning Sheet lightning happens when an electrical charge builds up inside a cloud and flows from one cloud to another. It is a bright flash ...

Another lightning term is sheet lighting, otherwise known by its official name: intra-lightning. This is the most common form of lightning and it occurs inside a cloud.

Most lightning occurs within the clouds. "Sheet lightning" describes a distant bolt that lights up an entire cloud base. Other visible bolts may appear as beads, ribbons, or rocket lightning.

Intra-cloud lightning: Lightning that is embedded within a cloud that lights up as a sheet of luminosity during the flash. Cloud-to-cloud lightning: ...

Intra-cloud lightning is sometimes called sheet lightning because it lights up the sky with a 'sheet' of light. Cloud to Cloud: Lightning occurs between two or more separate clouds.

LOOKING to the south and south-east from the Bel Alp, the play of silent lightning among the clouds and mountains is sometimes very wonderful. It may be seen palpitating for hours, with a barely ...

Canadian wildfire smoke over Michigan prompts air quality advisories and the unofficial "thundersmoke." Unusual weather phenomena: heat lightning, haboobs, virga, scud clouds, and waterspouts. On ...

The latter is sometimes referred to as "Sheet Lightning" and can light of the sky as the bolt scatters across the sky. A Flood Watch will remain in effect until 6 am Friday for Oahu. Local ...

A spokesperson for the Royal Meteorological Society said: "Sheet Lightning is a term used to describe clouds illuminated by a lightning discharge where the actual lightning channel is either ...