Dry lightning strikes have been blamed for causing a number of bushfires across Victoria. But what's the difference between dry and wet lightning?
Lightning and thunder are forecast across Melbourne and regional Victoria until midday Wednesday, posing fire risks for authorities amid heatwave conditions. Lightning strikes have started multiple bushfires and destroyed at least three homes across Victoria amid searing heatwave conditions.
Fire authorities have issued repeated warnings about the phenomenon, but what exactly is "dry" lightning?"Dry lightning is a thunderstorm that produces thunder and lightning and rainfall as well, but the rain evaporates as it falls towards the earth and none of it actually reaches the ground," said Angus Hines, senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology.
"And when I say these are massive clouds, mate, they punch higher than Mount Everest. They go into the stratosphere," he saidPhoto shows A grass fire sends a plume of smoke into the air, above which a thick white rain cloud has formed. These pulses are found through the radio wave frequency, Mr Hines said, with each pulse hitting three different receivers.
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