dry lightning
Storm without precipitation
Dry lightning is lightning that occurs without significant rainfall reaching the ground.
The rain evaporates before landing, leaving no moisture to dampen the landscape.
Dry lightning is particularly dangerous in arid regions because it can ignite wildfires without the accompanying rain that might extinguish them: The fire was sparked by dry lightning during a summer storm.
- wildfireUncontrolled vegetation blaze
- fire dangerLikelihood of flames spreading
- dryFree from moisture
- flashBrief burst of light
- heat wavesSustained extreme high temperatures
bolt · fuel load · drought · smoke · smoke plume · fire crew · fire weather · spot fires · thunderstorm · summer storms · spark · virga · cumulonimbus · downdraft · pyrolysis · anvil cloud · updraft · controlled burns
- Thunderstormsthunder, thunderstorm, thunderclap, thunder roll, thunder rumble
- Lightningbolt, flash, thunderbolt, cloud-to-ground, intracloud
- Electrical Dischargesarc, spark, corona, electric arc, electric spark
- sky phenomenathunderstorm, rainbow, sunset, sunrise, solar eclipse
dry lightningthundershower
Rain with lightning
rainstorm · downpour · cloudburst · soaking rain · deluge
lightning, driest, dryly, dryness, drying, lighten, lightened, lightening, light