What causes lightning bolts down below when there is no storm?
Heat Lightning – Heat lightning is a misnomer for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not have accompanying sounds of thunder. This occurs because the lightning occurs very far away and the sound waves dissipate before they reach the observer. Heat lightning was named because it often occurs on hot summer nights, and to distinguish it from lightning accompanied by audible thunder and cooling rainfall at the point of observation. Ordinary lightning results from the discharge of negative ions created from the friction of ice and water particles bumping into each other at the bottom of a cloud. Heat lightning can be an early warning sign that thunderstorms are approaching. Dry Lightning – Dry lightning is a term which is used to refer to lightning strikes occurring without precipitation. The term is a technical misnomer since lightning is obviously not wet in any instance, and also because the thunderstorms which sometimes cause
