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Education / Pedagogy / Language, reading | | English term or phrase: Heat lighting | Which of these might the author also include in the list of false whether predictions?
Heat lightning
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| | relámpago de calor | Explanation:
heat lightning (Geofís): relámpago de calor.
Diccionario Collazo Inglés-Español
"Heat lightning: Flashes too far away for observer to hear the thunder. Like sheet lightning, these flashes are created by lightning bolts, but are in thunderstorms more than 10 miles away. Trees, buildings and urban noise can cut this distance to less than five miles. It's called heat lightning because it is seen more frequently on hot summer nights when the sky overhead is clear. Often, air molecules and dust particles in the atmosphere refract the light coming from distant lightning, making the bolts or flashes appear orange."
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8 mins confidence:   | heat lighting rayo térmico
Explanation:
Si hay que desechar una de las alternativas, tendría que ser ésta. Se refiere a un rayo de tormenta.
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Note added at 9 mins (2004-02-18 01:56:29 GMT)
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Perdón, no desechar, sino incluir en la lista de predicciones falsas de condiciones climáticas.
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16 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 relámpago de calor
Explanation:
heat lightning (Geofís): relámpago de calor.
Diccionario Collazo Inglés-Español
"Heat lightning: Flashes too far away for observer to hear the thunder. Like sheet lightning, these flashes are created by lightning bolts, but are in thunderstorms more than 10 miles away. Trees, buildings and urban noise can cut this distance to less than five miles. It's called heat lightning because it is seen more frequently on hot summer nights when the sky overhead is clear. Often, air molecules and dust particles in the atmosphere refract the light coming from distant lightning, making the bolts or flashes appear orange."
Reference: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wflash/wflash2.htm
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