"blue starter" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: blue starters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue starter (plural blue starters)
  1. (meteorology) 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 12 miles altitude. Categories (topical): Lightning, Meteorology

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