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REFERRING to Mr. Don's letter (NATURE, August 17), it may be of interest to note that for many years I have been observing thunderstorms, often from high places on Etna, and from a distance, and I have never seen a lightning flash which was a single one. Lightning flashes from the clouds to the earth are always two, three, or more, either very rapidly repeated on the spot and along the same track, or in different places, sometimes very far apart, and simultaneously.
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PLATANIA, G. A Peculiar Thunderclap. Nature 98, 209 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098209c0
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