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Sheet Lightning

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WE had here last night a violent rain and lightning storm without thunder. The lightning was very vivid and incessant, and seemed nearly overhead, but there was no sound but that of rain. We are near the crest of the Apennines, and the storm seemed to have gathered along that crest, having been preceded by a furious sirocco suddenly supervening on a north-west wind.

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STILLMAN, W. Sheet Lightning. Nature 28, 271 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028271c0

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