superlightning

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ lightning.

Noun

superlightning (uncountable)

1. (meteorology, rare) Extremely powerful lightning; a superbolt.
   • 1978, Science Update‎^[1], Gaylord Professional Publications., page 131:

     Many of the superlightning phenomena detected by the satellites were produced by winter storms over Japan and the northeast Pacific.

   • 1981, Paranormal Borderlands of Science‎^[2], Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 131:

     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.

   • 2008, Charles E. Anzalone, Galactic Travel at Warp Speed in Imaginary Time‎^[3], Xlibris US, →ISBN, page 19:

     Superlightning has been documented and recorded as shooting upward, beyond the cloud layer, thousands of feet.