If you’re seeing the flash in the clouds, but there isn’t a lightning bolt, the light from the strike can reflect off of the clouds. Lightning, on the other hand, can be seen up to 100 miles away, depending on clouds and other air conditions. Thunder is the noise caused by the lightning strike, it can only be heard from about 10 miles away from the center of the lightning strike. ![]() According to the National Weather Service, lightning is most common during the summer months of the year, but can occur anytime there is a thunderstorm, which can happen at any point during the year. Lightning is essentially formed by opposing electrical charges in a thunderstorm cloud, otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud. To further prove it doesn’t exist, we can use the basics of what we know about lightning. It is just too far away for you to see the cloud-to-ground lightning strike and the accompanying thunder, so just a light flash is all your eyes will catch. But, what you’re actually seeing is lightning from a far distant thunderstorm. “Heat lightning” is just a term used to describe the phenomena of lighting flashing without the following of thunder. Most of us were told when we were growing up, that “heat lightning” occurs when the air gets hot. ![]() There is only one minor problem with that: heat lightning doesn’t exist. As temperatures begin their yearly increase and afternoon thunderstorms pop up across the ArkLaMiss, many people will report that they’ve seen heat lightning or ask us if we have seen it ourselves.
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