dry lightning

[Tom Zurinskas]

Recently a bolt came "out of the blue" and killed a man here in FL the
lightning capital of the US.  The sky was blue with clouds only on the
horizon.  The man was standing in his yard.  The article in the press said a
bolt can travel sideways 30 miles from a cloud and then head to earth.  The
power is 10 times that of a regular lightning bolt.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4  truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at
authorhouse.com.





>From: James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: dry lightning
>Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 07:00:59 -0700
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>Poster:       James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject:      Re: dry lightning
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>If meteorologists eschew the term dry lightning, I
>would say it is because it is undefined and imprecise,
>as evidenced by this discussion.
>
>--- Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
>...
> > Perhaps meteorologists are eschewing the term
> > because it seems to imply some outmoded caloric
> > theory of its nature.
> >
> > JL
>
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