heat lightning

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Many blazes are triggered by heat, lightning, winds and other factors that are harder to predict in advance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

She recalled certain images: heat lightning traveling from cloud to cloud, tall grasses, gas flares on the horizon, droves of red-winged blackbirds.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2019

Through the dark humid air, Hardy could see mountains lit by sudden flashes of heat lightning, the boom of thunder echoing over the water.

From Washington Post

Thunder rumbled somewhere far off, and unfocused heat lightning flashed in the darkening sky overhead.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this time it wasn’t heat lightning, for a few moments later a low mumble, still far away, announced at last the coming storm.

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit