From: "Hans-Joachim Brandt" <hajo.brandt.dj1zb@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: LF: "Kugelblitz"
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Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:07:29 +0200
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Dear all,

in my big-volume Langenscheid's dictionary Kugelblitz is translated as "ball 
lightning", as John Rabson G3PAI has already proposed.

73 Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB


Dick Rollema schrieb:
> To All from PA0SE
>
> Uwe, DJ8WX wrote:
> .
>
> > ah, whats "kugelblitz" on english? flash of lightning biting its tail?
>
> Well, I don't know what it is in English (couild not find it in a
> dictionary) but what your wife saw could have been what in Dutch is called a
> "bolbliksem".  It is a rather rare phenomenom and is described as a ball of
> fire, perhaps some 30cm in diameter, that slowly moves along overhead lines
> or other objects and after several seconds explodes. It can cause extensive
> damage in its surrounding, sometimes over a larger area than a "normal"
> stroke of lightning would do.
>
> 73, Dick, PA0SE
>
>