Who knew this even happened? Lightning above the clouds! At least no golfers get killed :) Pretty beautiful, isn't it? "poor restaurant service for LIFE?" Perish the thought!!!
This phenomenon occurs in the sky over our heads, not the sea. It is a type of lightning known as red sprite, and rarely has it ever been photographed in this detail.
Even though sprites have been recorded for over 30 years, their root cause remains unknown.
Some thunderstorms have them, but most don't. These mysterious bursts of light in the upper atmosphere momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish.
A few years ago high speed videos were taken detailing how red sprites actually develop.
The featured image was captured last month in high definition from Italy.
One unusual feature of sprites is that they are relatively cold -- they operate more like long fluorescent light tubes than hot compact light bulbs. In general, red sprites take only a fraction of a second to occur and are best seen when powerful thunderstorms are visible from the side.
FASCINATING! These pages get curiouser and curiouser every day.
Who knew this even happened? Lightning above the clouds! At least no golfers get killed :)
ReplyDeletePretty beautiful, isn't it? "poor restaurant service for LIFE?" Perish the thought!!!
I agree Z, pretty cool.
DeleteI love that and won't draw the obvious metaphor. Speaking of witch, some say Hillary's thrown her hat into the 2020 ring. Yes please.
ReplyDeleteThe hag is definitely running. Or at least trying for the nomination.
DeleteMaybe it will be the Hildehag and the Abrams Tank who also 'won' the election in Georgia by minus 5000 votes.
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ReplyDeleteThis phenomenon occurs in the sky over our heads, not the sea. It is a type of lightning known as red sprite, and rarely has it ever been photographed in this detail.
Even though sprites have been recorded for over 30 years, their root cause remains unknown.
Some thunderstorms have them, but most don't. These mysterious bursts of light in the upper atmosphere momentarily resemble gigantic jellyfish.
A few years ago high speed videos were taken detailing how red sprites actually develop.
The featured image was captured last month in high definition from Italy.
One unusual feature of sprites is that they are relatively cold -- they operate more like long fluorescent light tubes than hot compact light bulbs. In general, red sprites take only a fraction of a second to occur and are best seen when powerful thunderstorms are visible from the side.
FASCINATING! These pages get curiouser and curiouser every day.
Thanks Franco, and thanks for offering up the meat of the information on this for this who may not have clicked. :)
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