A rare form of lightning called ‘red sprites’ (only confirmed 30 years ago) observed earlier this month at Kununurra in Western Australia. To wit:
100-meter balls of ionized air shoot down from about 80-km high at 10 percent the speed of light and are quickly followed by a group of upward streaking ionized balls. Red sprites take only a fraction of a second to occur and are best seen when powerful thunderstorms are visible from the side.
(Pic: Ben Broady)
1000 frame per second films of lightning strikes at various parts of the US (but mainly Arizona) captured in 4k by filmmaker Dustin Farrell using a Phantom Flex4K high-speed camera. The three minute film contains a total of three terabytes (3,000GB) of data. Farrell sez of it:
Lightning is like a snowflake. Every bolt is different. I learned that lightning varies greatly in speed. There are some incredible looking bolts that I captured that didn’t make the cut because even at 1000fps they only lasted for one frame during playback. I also captured some lightning that appear computer generated it lasted so long on the screen.
Some of the #lightning strikes tonight over #tramore #waterford #stormhour #Weather pic.twitter.com/HVKbFIYeGz
— Leah Burgess 👻 (@Spookwoman) July 19, 2017
Leah Burgess tweetz:
Lightning over Dunmore East and Tramore #stormhour #weather
In case you missed it.
Shockiní for weather person Caitlín Nic Aoidh on last night’s Aimsir Láithreach On TG4. The station celebrated its 20th birthday last night.
In fairness.
GRMA: An Poke
Michael McCutcheon writes:
Thought you guys might like this. Taken by me over Killiney Bay at about 10.30pm last night…
Further to last night’s bizarre cloudage over Dublin
Carole writes:
“That WASN”T the sunset hiding behind it. That (above) is the east over Ballsbridge….”
What the fupp is it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNESdSe4ZZs
Via Channel 4 News:
Spectacular footage of Odakyu electric train struck by lightning in Tokyo, Japan.
From Queen’s University Belfast:
The ‘striking’ moment the storm arrives at the Lanyon Building.
