Meanings
- rareuncountableclimatologyExtremely powerful lightning; a superbolt.
Superlightning has been documented and recorded as shooting upward, beyond the cloud layer, thousands of feet.
2008, Charles E. Anzalone, Galactic Travel at Warp Speed in Imaginary Time, Xlibris US, →ISBN, page 192 more examples
Many of the superlightning phenomena detected by the satellites were produced by winter storms over Japan and the northeast Pacific.
1978, Science Update, Gaylord Professional Publications., page 131We've discovered a strange soil chemistry on Mars, well-ordered wind systems on Venus, superlightning bolts, giant auroras, and a thin system of rings at Jupiter, volcanoes in eruption on the Jovian moon lo, and more rings and a whole gaggle of new moons around Saturn.
1981, Paranormal Borderlands of Science, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 131
Origin
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