bluejet

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Alternative forms
  • blue jet, blue-jet

Noun

bluejet (plural bluejets)

  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
    • 1999, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, Skies of fury: weather weirdness around the world‎, Simon and Schuster, page 100:
      Mysterious bluejets can be seen with the naked eye from the ground, but they are rare and difficult to spot.

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