intracloud

Inside the cloud

Intracloud describes lightning that occurs entirely within a single cloud, never reaching the ground or another cloud.

This is the most common type of lightning, often visible as a diffuse flash illuminating the cloud from within: The storm produced spectacular intracloud lightning.

lightning

flash

Brief burst of light

illumination · sheet lightning · thunder · electrical · storm · anvil · cumulonimbus · flickering · brightness · atmospheric

computing

data center

Facility housing networked computers

on-premises · infrastructure · servers · networking · storage · firewall · security · latency · bandwidth · workload

Opposites
lightning discharge path

intracloudcloud-to-ground

Lightning hitting the surface

ground strike · bolt from the blue · ball lightning

Family

intra, cloud, clouds, cloudy, cloudier, cloudiest, cloudiness, clouded, clouding

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