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FOR some time I have been staying at the Kurhaus, St. Beatenberg, Switzerland, and my window commands a view of the Bernese Oberland from the Wetterhorn to the Balmhorn. The Eiger Mönch, Jungfrau, and Blümlisalp stand out most clearly above the lower mountains in front of them, of which the Faulhorn and Mesen are members. There has been a continuance of hot and dry weather for many weeks, and there have been occasional thunderstorms with both forked and sheet lightning. On the night of August 21, about ten o'clock, semicircular flashes of light shot up apparently behind the Mönch, quivered for a few seconds, and then disappeared. I counted twenty-eight in a minute. The light was sometimes intense at a central point, which was steady, and from this a quivering glow proceeded and lighted up from 15° to 20° of the horizon. The outline of the Jungfrau group could occasionally, but not always, be seen.
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BRUNTON, L. A Pseudo-Aurora . Nature 87, 278 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087278c0
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