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Is there one word that that means a lot of lightning? For instance, one word that describes a night sky that is constantly full of lightning flashes.
Example " A very lightning-ous evening"
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That would be a scientific term which refers to a certain type of lightning like blanket lightning. I don't know the actual name of that type of lightning.
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"Electrical storm"? I've heard meterologists use the term before.
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Here's a URL to a glossary of Lighning terms: http://wvlightning.com/glossary.htmlI still remember seeing lightning light up interior of cumulous clouds at night in the Philippines, every few seconds, without a sound. It made it possible to walk at night without any other source of illumination. Never have seen it in US.
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a lot of lightning
"Corruscations"? As in: "May the scintillations of your mind, be like the corruscations of summer lightning. Lambent but innocuous."
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"A very lightning-ous evening" sounds like time to get out of the water 
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Yep, we call that sort of lightning sheet lightning, and it's all we ever see here, normally. We've only had three of four storms with cloud-to-ground lightning in the last twenty-one years, all of them in the space of a fortnight in late 2001.
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I propose "fulminous" (from latin fulmen, lightning); this word does not exist yet. fulminant is something different.
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fulminous - Of or pertaining to thunder and lightning; fulminating.
1635 HEYWOOD Hierarch. II. 63 In his hand a Trisulc thunderbolt or Fulminous brand. 1665 SIR T. BROWNE Wks. (1835) IV. 354 The like fulminous fire killed a man in Erpingham church. 1876 F. HARRISON Choice Bks. (1886) 122 Sad as those fulminous imprecations on mankind, when Lear bows his head to the storm.
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