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The sky having a panic attack and billing it as a light show.

means A storm marked by intense lightning activity, often with relatively little rain — nature's electrical discharge on full display.

from A plain descriptive compound: 'electric,' from Greek 'elektron' (amber, whose static properties the Greeks noticed when rubbed), plus 'storm,' from Old English 'storm,' meaning violent weather. The term became common once 'electric' entered everyday vocabulary after the study of electricity took off, letting people name lightning-heavy storms by their defining feature rather than their rain.

lightning heat
hotter than the surface of the sun
sound lag
thunder you hear is already old news
charge source
ice colliding inside clouds, not rain
strike odds
same spot gets hit more than you think
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