blue starter
English
Noun
blue starter (plural blue starters)
- (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity, reaching to only about 12 miles altitude that occur over regions where large hailstones were falling
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See also
- bluejet
- elve
- gigantic jet
- gnome
- pixie
- red sprite
- sprite halo
- sprite
- transient luminous events
- troll
- upward lightning