electrical storm

noun

Origin of electrical storm

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

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It can both “read” the brain’s electrical signals and “write” into the brain—using short electrical pulses to prevent a seizure electrical storm from occurring.
Want to Decode the Human Brain? There’s a New System for That, and It’s Pretty Wild | Shelly Fan | September 22, 2020 | Singularity Hub
The airship had become charged with static as a result of an electrical storm.
Did Static Electricity Spark the Hindenburg Explosion? | Justin Green | March 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Reports of the Air France A330 being hit by a severe electrical storm are not in themselves ominous.
Where Is Flight 447? | Clive Irving | June 1, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
His only worry at the time lay in the dark sky above and the blue-white stabs of lightning that promised an electrical storm.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 | Various
A method of storing electricity generated during a severe electrical storm.
How to Succeed as an Inventor | Goodwin B. Smith

One is almost tempted to compare this period of Europe's history to the hours immediately preceding a violent electrical storm.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) | Various
Whilst I was doing this Winifred had a splendid view of a distant electrical storm.
Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan | Frances Halton Eva Hasell
At sunset the doors would all be closed, for then the rain and the electrical storm would return, and at night the blizzard.
Loot of the Void | Edwin K. Sloat

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