In most cases it is lightning. Any cloud-to-ground lighting bolt can kill while rain is usually harmless. Rain, too, can be dangerous if it leads to flooding.
Lightning usually occurs when is rains, sleets, hails etc, most comonly when there is a thunder storm. Dry lightning simply means that there is not rain present when the lightning occurs. Hope that helps
Lightning occurs constantly year round. However for given areas of the world it varies, usually with the season. In the US there is more lightning in the spring and summer, than fall or winter.
Yes, lightning can extend several miles from a thunderstorm.
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In most cases it is lightning. Any cloud-to-ground lighting bolt can kill while rain is usually harmless. Rain, too, can be dangerous if it leads to flooding.
They do not need any rain or lightning to stop. They may be shrouded in rain and are often accompanied by lighting. That said, tornadoes usually do form in the rear portion of a thunderstorm, which is often behind the area of heavy rain.
Yes, very often tornadoes are preceded by heavy rain and lightning. Tornadoes usually form near the back of a supercell thunderstorm.
No. Rain is water falling from the sky. Thunder is a loud booming noise produced by lightning. Thunder is usually accompanied by rain.
No. Lightning actually produces small amounts of pollutants such as ozone and nitrogen oxides. The rain the usually accompanies lightning can remove some pollutants.
Mushrooms are fungi, and require water, which usually falls as rain during a storm.
Lightning usually occurs when is rains, sleets, hails etc, most comonly when there is a thunder storm. Dry lightning simply means that there is not rain present when the lightning occurs. Hope that helps
Lightning rain would be translated to "ama no hotaru", translated literally as rain of lightning.
no it can not.
A rain shower is any even that produces a relatively brief period of rain. A thunderstorm is a rain storm that produces thunder and lightning.
Lightning occurs constantly year round. However for given areas of the world it varies, usually with the season. In the US there is more lightning in the spring and summer, than fall or winter.
It isn't the lightning, but the rain, which promotes the growth of mushrooms.