yaacov
February 25, 2018, 3:47pm
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Is heat lightening real and therefore requires a bracha?
Heat lightning, sometimes known as silent lightning, summer lightning, or dry lightning (mainly used in the American south; not to be confused with dry thunderstorms, which are also often called dry lightning), is a misnomer used for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not appear to have accompanying sounds of thunder.
The actual phenomenon commonly called heat lightning is simply cloud-to-ground lightning that occurs very far away, wi...
Interesting article. If those facts are correct, which they probably are, then there’s no such thing as heat lightening. It’s just lightening without sound, because light travels faster and further than sound.
Yup. Pretty amazing. You make a bracha on that.
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