Originally published at: Astonishing video of lightning bolts jetting upwards into the sky before hurricane | Boing Boing
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Lightning is beautiful and fascinating in its many forms. I’d still rather be in a shelter when a hurricane approaches than setting up the tripod to capture images of it.
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Aren’t those called sprites?
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IIRC, gigantic jets are indeed gigantic sprites. STEVE is another really interesting, fairly recently discovered atmospheric phenomenon, and well worth hipping oneself to.
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ETA gigantic jets and STEVE links
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Coolness.
Here’s a completely unrelated high speed capture. The 30-second video shows a very slow-mo drawn-out 0.13 seconds - juuust enough time for humans to register a flash.
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