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WE saw some strange lightning yesterday evening at 9 p.m. It was a, clear, moonless night, with just a bank of cloud very low in the S. S. W. with a well-marked edge, height say from horizon (flat) to 5° up. There was a misty cloud above this. These clouds we couid only see properly when the flashes came. Stars were visible at about 10° above the horizon at this point, and the sky was quite clear all over elsewhere. Now and then flashes showed from behind the lower cloud (the flashes themselves were mostly hidden, and thunder was not audible). The flashes were not so frequent as usual, say one per minute or so. Generally here they are almost incessant during thunderstorms.
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EVERETT, W. Rocket Lightning. Nature 68, 599 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068599c0
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