English-Spanish translations for lightning

rayoKosovo es el único lugar en que los acontecimientos se han precipitado a la velocidad de un rayo. It is only in Kosovo that we have seen things happening at lightning speed. Lamentablemente, el tiempo era malo - nubarrones, lluvia, rayos, tormenta - y el avión empezó a tambalearse. Unfortunately, the weather was dreadful - black clouds, rain, lightning, storms - and the plane began to toss about. Mi segundo comentario es que el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos y el Sistema de la Reserva Federal han reaccionado enérgicamente y con la velocidad del rayo. My second point is that the United States Government and the Federal Reserve System reacted vigorously and with lightning speed.
relámpagoSorprendentemente, el Presidente de la Comunidad Autónoma, Sr. Zaplana, tras una visita relámpago decidió que no era pertinente la declaración de zona catastrófica. The President of the Autonomous Region, Mr Zaplana, made a lightning visit to the area but, surprisingly, decided that it was inappropriate to declare the region a disaster area.

A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.which heats the air and typically causes thunder--
A discharge of this kind
Anything that moves very fast
The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers
Extremely fast or sudden; moving at the speed of lightning
To produce lightning

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