blue starter
noun1
Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences A rapidly expanding disc-shaped region of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, seen high above energetic lightning associated with hail-producing regions of thunderstorms, reaching up no higher than about twelve miles altitude.
- Blue starters were first observed in 1994.2007, Vladimir A. Rakov, Martin A. Uman, Lightning: Physics and Effects, Cambridge University Press, page 483:
- Related terms
- blue jet, elve, gigantic jet, gnome, pixie, red sprite, sprite halo, sprite, transient luminous event, troll, upward lightning