Letter Published: 07 June 1883 Sheet Lightning N. W. TAYLOR Nature 28, 126 (1883) Cite this article ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...

THE correspondence on this subject (NATURE, vol. xxviii. pp. 4 and 54) can scarcely be said to contribute anything in support of the statement that sheat-lightning and the so-called summer or heat ...

Sheet lightning: Diffuse illumination of those clouds that surround the path of a lightning bolt; not a unique form of lightning, only a manifestation of ordinary lightning in the presence of ...

Slide 1 of 3, Sheet lightning in a cloudy sky, Sheet lightning Sheet lightning happens when an electrical charge builds up inside a cloud and flows from one cloud to another.

Slide 1 of 3, Sheet lightning in a cloudy sky, Sheet lightning Sheet lightning happens when an electrical charge builds up inside a cloud and flows from one cloud to another.

However, While fork lightning looks to be striking from cloud-to-ground there is a strong chance that sheet lightning can also be travelling from cloud-to-cloud (intracloud).

Lightning over Norton near Worcester. (Image: Parth Trivedi) Quick-thinking photographers Calvin Davies, from Malvern, and Parth Trivedi, from Norton, snapped these pictures of the sheet lightning.