![]() What happens is at night you are able to see distant thunderstorms that are so far away you can’t hear the thunder or get any of the rain. Well all lightning comes from a cumulonimbus cloud or a thundershower or thunderstorm not just heat. ![]() So they just called it heat lightning because it happens on warm summer nights. ![]() People would notice lightning in the sky but they never heard thunder or saw a drop of rain and there was even at times clear skies over their heads. Could you even imagine no A/C?Īlso in an era before Doppler Radar was easily available to the public on TV, online and via apps on your phone. The term originated in the days when people use to sit on their front porch on warm summer evenings to escape the hotter house prior to A/C. We’ve all heard the term “heat lightning” but what if I told you there’s no such thing? There really isn’t anything called heat lightning, it’s just a term people mistakenly give to distant thunderstorms. I originally wrote this a few summers ago but it’s always worth a re-post every summer. So today lets start with a common myth that is still used today. I might have to break those up into a few posts at a later time. Though there are some that are deadly and those deal with tornado myths. Often times they can be fun and just simply ways to explain weather in terms easier to understand. Some have a small amount of reality to them but most do not. There are many weather myths that have been passed down by generations or spread through folklore.
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