superlightning
Noun
Extremely powerful lightning; a superbolt.
Usage- Rare
- Uncountable
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Many of the superlightning phenomena detected by the satellites were produced by winter storms over Japan and the northeast Pacific.
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We've discovered a strange soil chemistry on Mars, well-ordered wind systems on Venus, superlightning bolts, giant auroras, and a thin system of rings at Jupiter, volcanoes in eruption on the Jovian moon lo, and more rings and a whole gaggle of new moons around Saturn.
Superlightning has been documented and recorded as shooting upward, beyond the cloud layer, thousands of feet.