beaded lightning

From Glossary of Meteorology

(Also called chain lightning, pearl lightning.) A particular aspect of a normal lightning flash occasionally seen when the observer happens to view end-on a number of segments of the irregular channel (zigzag lightning) and hence receives an impression of higher luminosity at a series of locations along the channel.

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