Wildest lightning strike ever?

[Darrell KSR]

You decide.

https://twitter.com/KansasCityMedia/...331969/video/1

[CitizenBBN]

that was a great one.

Lightning is IMO one of the most fascinating of natural processes. The sheer power of it, how it does such unpredictable and confounding things due to the sheer power, how plasma pulls up to it (and we didn't know that for a long time), how there is actually lightning going the other way from clouds up into the atmosphere, etc.

It's just cool. Then there's ball lightning and whether it's even real, all kinds of stuff.

That was a really good one. Finally found that connection and then all that power flows through that connection. Massive amounts.

Then then people get hit with that much power and live, where you do that in a bathtub with a toaster and die. Just crazy how it works.

[Doc]

#2 won a Darwin award

[PedroDaGr8]

Lightning is IMO one of the most fascinating of natural processes. The sheer power of it, how it does such unpredictable and confounding things due to the sheer power, how plasma pulls up to it (and we didn't know that for a long time), how there is actually lightning going the other way from clouds up into the atmosphere, etc.

It's just cool. Then there's ball lightning and whether it's even real, all kinds of stuff.

100% agree! Sprites, Elfs, jets, and various other lightning related phenomena are crazy cool. They are such amazing examples of the enormous charges involved in these processes.

I actually find ball lightning even more cool. As a chemist, I personally think the Silicon Hypothesis is the most likely descriptive framework for ball lightning at this time. Basically, lightning strikes the ground, which naturally contains silica (SiO2). The strike vaporizes the silicon (Si), which then condenses into an aerosol as it cools. The silicon particles in the aerosol end up bound together based on the charges from the lightning strike. This silicon aerosol then reacts with oxygen in the air to reform silica (SiO2) which causes the aerosol to continue to glow (much akin to burning carbon in a fire). This theory fits very well based on the limited direct observational data we have on ball lightning (emission spectra matches elements from the soil, mostly silica with other trace elements).

[PedroDaGr8]

Lightning is IMO one of the most fascinating of natural processes. The sheer power of it, how it does such unpredictable and confounding things due to the sheer power, how plasma pulls up to it (and we didn't know that for a long time), how there is actually lightning going the other way from clouds up into the atmosphere, etc.

It's just cool. Then there's ball lightning and whether it's even real, all kinds of stuff.

100% agree! I tend to science geek out on this stuff. Sprites, Elfs, jets, and various other lightning related phenomena are crazy cool. They are such amazing examples of the enormous charges involved in these processes.

I actually find ball lightning even awesome. As a chemist, I personally think the Silicon Hypothesis is the most likely descriptive framework for ball lightning at this time. Basically, lightning strikes the ground, which naturally contains silica (SiO2). The strike vaporizes the silicon (Si), which then condenses into an aerosol as it cools. The silicon particles in the aerosol end up bound together based on the charges from the lightning strike. This silicon aerosol then reacts with oxygen in the air to reform silica (SiO2) which causes the aerosol to continue to glow (much akin to burning carbon in a fire). This theory fits very well based on the limited direct observational data we have on ball lightning (emission spectra matches elements from the soil, mostly silica with other trace elements).

[MickintheHam]

#2 won a Darwin award

I hate it when people link these things. One video leads to another, leads to another, leads to another. An hour an a half later you wonder where the evening went.

[CitizenBBN]

I hate it when people link these things. One video leads to another, leads to another, leads to another. An hour an a half later you wonder where the evening went.

Hey. it's better than the old days when you had to sit at the TV and turn that dial endlessly. Usually with pliers b/c that VHF dial always came off.

[blueboss]

https://www.golfchannel.com/news/lig...us-womens-open

Here’s another great lighting strike captured on film.


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[blueboss]

https://twitter.com/LPGA/status/1134...595842/photo/1



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[blueboss]

https://twitter.com/shanebacon/statu...75077146734593


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[dan_bgblue]

https://www.golfchannel.com/news/lig...us-womens-open

Here’s another great lighting strike captured on film.


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Daaaum, I have never see that in a photo. The odds of catching that image are astronomical

[Doc]

Before I got into vet school I worked at the Kentucky State Diagnostic lab, out on Newtown Pike. I collected all the tissue samples on the necropsies done. We once had a belted galloway cow come in who the owner found dead under a tree in the field. After extensive exam we found two small burn marks, one on the left shoulder and the other on the right rear foot. Cause of death was lightening strike. Hit her in the shoulder and exited the foot. Pretty crazy

[blueboss]

Daaaum, I have never see that in a photo. The odds of catching that image are astronomical

What do you think the people in the foreground of the photo standing under a tree are thinking?


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[CitizenBBN]

pedro-

Like you I'm fascinated by ball lightning. I remember old family stories about people seeing it, and it's like one of those old time "things like this used to happen but don't happen any more" things, which of course for Lightning isn't really the case. So is it just that rare or were they drinking hard?

I also find the nature of leaders and streamers fascinating, and the fact that people have captured streamers on film is amazing.

Here's a pic I love, that shows the streamers forming in response to the leader, and they're still there reaching out when the leader finds one so you have the lightning strike and at least 2 failed streamers in the same pic:

[dan_bgblue]

This one is pretty impressive. I suspect this one is a shot from a 35 mm camera where they locked the lens open f0r several seconds and this shot recorded several individual strikes that show up in one image. The article did not state that, so my thought is certainly in question

[blueboss]

This one is pretty impressive. I suspect this one is a shot from a 35 mm camera where they locked the lens open f0r several seconds and this shot recorded several individual strikes that show up in one image. The article did not state that, so my thought is certainly in question

Whoa!!


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[kingcat]

[blueboss]

Saw this one posted on FB... so TIFWIW


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[dan_bgblue]

This one made me think, whoa nelly, and to thank my patron saint that it was not me that filmed that clip.

[dan_bgblue]

Romulans, Klingons, or Borg?

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Saw this one posted on FB... so TIFWIW

[Darrell KSR]

That might cause me to wreck.

[Doc]

Looks like it blew up a transformer

[CitizenBBN]

Looks like it blew up a transformer

Sure looks like it but there isn't one on that pole. That's just the sheer force of that lightning hitting ground. I've seen the aftermath on farms when it hits trees. It can blast them into toothpicks.

Fascinates me how it can hit one object and pass right through, or jump out of it, and then hit one and blow it to bits. And we can't study it very well b/c we can't replicate the power involved.

Heck it hits humans who sometimes live, sometimes die. Weird stuff.

[Darrell KSR]

@severeweatherEU: Great lightning photos from Montreux, over Lake Geneva, Switzerland last night, June 30th by Christophe Suarez! https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/...784769/photo/11561981273.jpg

[kingcat]

@severeweatherEU: Great lightning photos from Montreux, over Lake Geneva, Switzerland last night, June 30th by Christophe Suarez! https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/...784769/photo/11561981273.jpg

Appears to have started strait down towards the marina/city, and then decided it would be best to find the best conductor (water) and ground (hillside)

[blueboss]

Pretty good light and sound show at my house last night but was able to get any shots... lightening photos aren’t easy to snag. I guess you have to have a camera set where it just keeps clicking every 2-3 seconds and hope for the best.


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[dan_bgblue]

I guess you have to have a camera set where it just keeps clicking every 2-3 seconds and hope for the best.

Or be lucky enough to be in the middle of nowhere where it is dark as pitch and see the storm coming in time to set up and attach a remote shutter cable to the camera. Set the camera for multiple exposure, sit down in a comfy outdoor chair and press the remote to open the shutter. Just hold the shutter open until you see a good flash, then close it Wait for the storm to get closer and then open the shutter again and wait for a few good flashes and close the shutter again and rinse and repeat. 3 maybe 5 cycles and then move to the next frame.

[Darrell KSR]

Wasn't anywhere near professional quality, but I have had good luck in the past at the beach. I sit on the balcony of the Condo, set the phone to "burst" mode and randomly snap some overlooking the ocean.

My son cheats and does video, then just takes excerpts from it as photos. Works OK for too, not great.

[blueboss]

Rob Marciano, ABC news senior meteorologist just stated “July is the most dangerous month for lightening strikes”.




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[Darrell KSR]

Video....

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/11486...548672/video/1