blue jet

English

Alternative forms

• blue jet

Noun

blue jet (plural blue jets)

1. (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomenon 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

Translations

optical phenomenon

• Finnish: viuhkasalama
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• blue starter
• elve
• gigantic jet
• gnome
• pixie
• red sprite
• sprite halo
• sprite
• transient luminous events
• troll
• upward lightning