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One of the most popular weather-related phenomena

Lightning is one of the most popular phenomena linked to the weather, especially with bad weather as it appears precisely from the hand of rains and storms, many times as Foreword from the same…

Very clear and instantaneous glow on the horizon produced between two clouds as a result of an electrical discharge

It basically consists of a glow, a very, very clear light, which we see on the horizon and which occurs between two clouds like consequence of an electric discharge, when the sky is certainly charged, as is popularly said when the clouds cover it and they are dense. Another characteristic sign is instantaneity, speed with which it occurs and disappears, however, it can develop again with intervals.

Lightning, lightning and thunder, the thunderstorm is coming

Now, we must distinguish it from the lightning that is the electric discharge itself. Anyway, lightning and lightning almost always appear together, the lightning illuminates the sky, the lightning produces the discharge of

electricity and thanks to the illumination that the lightning produces in the sky we will be able to observe that discharge very well. And there is a third partner in this duet who is thunder, which is the noise, certainly deafening, that occurs in unison with lightning and lightning. These three phenomena occurring at the same time generate in the viewers fear and announce the arrival of a strong electrical storm.

The rain that falls in the land surface It produces in it a precise process in which gravity is also involved and that causes an electric field to be generated that will culminate in lightning, lightning and thunder.

Symbolic use to refer to the speed of something or someone

As a consequence of the speed that characterizes lightning, the concept is used symbolically in the use colloquial to refer to that person who is fast or to what happens very quickly. It is normal that when we want to say that something happened very quickly or someone moves and acts in the same way we speak in terms of lightning. “My cousin paid a whirlwind visit to country and that is why he was unable to meet with many family members ”. "The new Boca Juniors player is a lightning bolt in the rival area."

Themes in Lightning