When I was a kid, I was coming home with my Dad, and his friend. We were miles from town, but we saw the lightning hit the ground. We thought it hit our TV antenna, but it hit the neighbor's tree, splitting it in half. Almost 40 years later, I can still see that bolt!
It's weird, I did not even realize there was different types of lightning. I have only ever seen cloud to ground lighting myself. So it's really cool to learn that mother nature can produce more than one kind!
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Mostly lighting is scary for some peeps but me I’m calm because it strikes our house all the time my bother gets scared but my sis and I keep him calm. Me during a storm 😊 my sister during a storm 🎧😎 my bother during a storm ☹️
Clash Master I asked my mosque teacher he said on days Allah talks with his angels shaytan tries to listen to the conversation but there are some other angels guarding and when they find or see shaytan they throw lighting at shaytan
I believe I saw ball lightning once (Quite a while after I saw this video too). I went for a walk right before this massive storm entered my town, I was constantly looking up at the clouds to see if the lightning was getting closer, which it was, so I kept a reasonable pace (basically jogging). I quickly looked up to check the sky, when I noticed a small glowing ball drop straight out of the clouds, and hit the ground a block away from me. It didn’t make a sound when it hit. At that point I thought ‘screw this!’ And I sprinted home. It’s safe to say I always check the weather radar if I think a storm is around now. (P.s. This was in Aus)
@@NevTheDeranged well I didn’t see any lightning or birds in the area before the ball appeared. Although the ‘ball’ did fall out of the clouds, so it might be a possibility that something like that occurred in the clouds. (I will also note, I didn’t hear any thunder directly afterwards either).
Speaking of Ball lightning that you mention at the end, I have witnessed it once. I was pretty young, but i remember a powerful electrical storm passing through the area, and being a young kid, it was a little scary. It was night and I was supposed to be in bed, but couldn't sleep, so i was peeking out my window, and saw the glowing orb just floating slowly in the air until it made contact with a telephone pole in the corner of the backyard, and released a bright flash, the loudest crack of thunder Ive ever heard. And of course it knocked out the transformer on the pole and killed power to that little part of our neighborhood. Was in Spokane, WA. in the mid 80's.
@@jeffreym4370 lmao! I had never watched Star War's single episode. But still, I feel Aliens exist. Though it's just a belief , like many feel people travel Heaven or Hell after Death. That's just a natural belief. Although I didn't connect the situation with this video. It was just a joke actually. 😁
Hank, ball lightning tortured me when I was 3 and 4. My parents live in a very old house and it had a tree scraping the wire that connected the house to the power lines. There were many huge storms in the summer and one night something glowing was rolling around the metal frame on my canopy bed. I was terrified. Then one night I was in the bath and one of those ball things came out of the bathroom light fixture and went into the hallway phone, killing it. My dad saw it too. I think a few more floated around my room and I ran screaming into my parents room. Eventually they cut the tree and it stopped. I had nightmares about the things attacking me for like a year.
My great grandparents, grandparents, my mom, and aunt witnessed ball lighting "float" as you said right through their house. My great grandmother had a small cottage and all were staying there for the summer. One extremely hot summer day, a thunderstorm came in off the water as they usually did and while all were sitting in the living room, one of those ball things went in the front door and out the back. This wasn't a one person saw it because everyone recounted the same story with absolute consistency right up until they all passed away including my mom who passed in 2018. For years afterwards, my great grandmother would lock the doors, pull the shades, and sit in a corner in the dark and wait out a storm as it passed by.
I have nightmares about that a 1 meter sized ball lightning will come into my house and push me into a corner... And then I wake up at 1am and don't get enough sleep.
(Side note) One time my school got hit by a lightning strike and all power went out for like 5-10 seconds. There wasn't ball lightning but everyone freaked out except me and the teacher.
I saw ball lightning when I was a little kid. It came out of a thunderhead several miles away and floated down diagonally toward where I was at. I was sitting on the steps of the front porch. All I could do is watch it coming. I feel like it woulda hit me if it didn't run into the across the street neighbor's transformer and explode. It was just a real bright "cool white" flickering ball. From beginning to end the whole thing must have lasted about 2 minutes. I hope I never forget that experience. Cause it sure was awesome.
A lot of people have seen ball lighting, but it's still extremely rare. I knew a retired airlines pilot who said that it formed on the nose of the airplane and slowly move down the inside all the way to the back. It's probably come complicated form of static electricity.
I saw ball lightning for the first time last year. I was filming a thunderstorm and it looked like the best of it was over, so of course I stopped the camera. No more than five minutes later, my brother and I watched as a bright ball--maybe the size of a beach ball or as small as a baseball--floated nearby. It was hard to tell size and distance because it was so bright. I was sort of paralyzed, awestruck. The thing blew up just like lightning after maybe ten or fifteen seconds existing as an orb. I'm absolutely pissed that I stopped the camera--the ball would have been visible right in its path. Ugh. That wasn't the only missed opportunity. I also missed lightning striking a barn and setting it on fire. Really, I've learned my lesson. Don't stop recording until the sky is blue. Excellent video as always, Hank. My favorite storm chaser/snake handler.
+Pecos Hank I've scoured a variety of sources and the only credible footage I have ever found of ball lighting is described here. At one point I found the original paper but have since lost the link. This the best I can find currently. medium.com/looking-up/ball-lightning-b594b6ffea37#.bj476lkr6 It was incidentally captured by a lightning research team that was studying normal lightning.
Your weather videos should be used for elementary school science classes. You are a great teacher. I think kids would really enjoy and thereby learn well from your content.
In high school my friend and I would chase storms up in Montana. One of the greatest things we ever saw was gigantic symmetrical lightning. Like a Rorschach test kind of thing. It wasn’t just once either but many strikes that had a mirror image in that storm. It was so intense and beautiful, I will never forget it. I’ve tried looking it up multiple times over the years and have never been able to find anything about it. Just a once in a lifetime kind of thing, I guess. Has anyone else experienced this?
The strangest lightning I've seen was actually in western NY. We were in the hills and a microburst took out our tent, luckily my fam also had a camper nearby. We decided to sit in the car and watch the show. We pulled up to a spot where we could see out over a few hilltops. The magic moment was when about 5 bolts crawled across the cloud base towards eachother. They joined together and formed a huge blue-white bolt that hit the hilltop directly across from us! It was blinding and the crack made our hair stand on end. I was surprised we didn't see something catch fire! We went back in the morning to see if we could spot where it hit but sadly saw nothing. Never have I seen one like it before or since!
When I was like 8, I was looking outside during a storm and saw ball lightning. I haven’t seen it since, and I’ve lived in the really intense stuff in north Texas. So I can say that it is real. Just EXTREMELY rare
I think Ive seen it once, it was pretty eerie. I was looking out the window at night, and this blue ball of flickering light passed by. I assumed it was ball lightning, what else could it possibly have been?
I had a weird experience with ball lightning in the 1970s. I was at the dining room table at 2AM doing homework. All of a sudden, a intensely bright glowing ball about the size of a soccer ball floated about 6" above the floor in the kitchen. It made a quiet sizzling sound. I stared at it. I had read about ball lightning, but all I could do when I actually saw it was stare with my mind a complete blank. It exploded with a deafening booming pop, like a transformer box exploding. The whole experience was only a second or two. No property damage. My sister, who had been sleeping, ran downstairs thinking something had exploded. When I told her what I had seen, she was pissed that she had missed it. Every other person who describes their experience with ball lightning sounds very similar to mine.
I absolutely love this channel. I did a report on tornados when I was in the 7th grade. I’m now 68 so that was almost before electricity was discovered. Haha. Your variety of information, calm demeanor and wicked sense of humor is unmatched by any other doing this type of work. I watched others but often interpersonal strife was too distracting. (TIV) And another was pretty good but I couldn’t take the screaming’Back Up’ when the driver was doing that already. (Dominator) I know I didn’t give enough clues for identifying some of those others but I’m just mean like that. 🤣😇 Please keep up your terrific work. You are very much appreciated!!
Before I never knew anything about lightning but after watching this video I learned so much from it! I didn’t even know what chain lightning was until I saw this! It’s still good to rewatch this memory of a video
Hank, you have to be one of the "coolest" people on youtube. The Patterson film shot was just too funny! If you really are in Pecos, I would like to "do lunch" with you the next time I breeze through there.
Howdy Ed. I earned the nickname "Pecos" because of my affiliation with tornadoes and rattlesnakes. Remember, Pecos Bill lassoed at tornado with a rattlesnake... And second my spending Summers in the Pecos River valley. I do pass through the town from time to time but nobody recognizes me. Happy Trails friend.
Pecos Hank lol I have been wondering how u got the name...snake/storm chaser that my friend is something you don't hear of often. love your vids and the way you explain the content.keep doin what u do the way u do
3:29 this is a cool technique to get those. I guess that they'll look better if the motion is done automatically with some motor to have a smooth uniform turn.
Earth: **does little lightning firecrackers** Saturn: "Hold my beer." But seriously... A very interesting video, and one hell of a collection of footage and stills. (Plus, that trick for catching the different flickers is a stroke of genius.) Don't forget those frightening "positive-charge" bolts, either - especially since they can create "sprites" in the upper-atmosphere. Though fat lot of good it does those of us who are on the ground and under said storms...
Thank you for describing "chain" lightning.😀 I only ever saw it once, many years ago, and I didn't know the name for it. A strangely slow moving lightning bolt struck the ground less than a mile away and seemed to break up into a necklace of glowing spheres which then faded out quickly but individually. The last few seemed to be drifting with the wind. The accompanying thunderclap rattled the house windows behind me. It was just so beautiful and awesome. (I'm not a storm chaser, but I really enjoy watching them.)
I have seen ball lightning. It was around 1.5 metres across, and so bright we could not look at it without squinting and covering our eyes. I was driving down the side of a shallow and narrow valley, on the right hand wall of the valley, about half way up the slope. The road was flat and level. We were returning from a day of skiing. It was dusky and starting to get dark at the time. The ball appeared from nowhere roughly in the middle of the valley about 50 metres ahead of the old '72 Landcruiser and maybe 70 metres left and at roughly the same altitude. It was moving away from us slowly but in the same direction, and so I chased it. I estimate it was doing around 70mph up the valley. It held a straight path and altitude from our perspective, and it lasted about 15 seconds, although it felt longer. When it ended, it simply winked out of existence, just like a normal lightning bolt, leaving us four guys with some heavy streaks in our vision. One of the guys thought it was an alien craft/UFO, but I was quick to disabuse him of that notion. It was a pretty freaky experience though, and I'll never forget it. Two Thumbs up - Would experience again! Edit: All four of us discussed our shared experience extensively on the hour-long trip home, and we all agreed that we saw the same thing, as we described it to each other repeatedly. This was in about 1985 or so. Long before cameras became ubiquitous. It looked blue white. Similar in colour to an arc welding plasma but it was steadier in brightness.
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About a month ago, Los Angeles, the city I live in, experienced a rare severe thunderstorm with an epic lightning show. There was constant cloud to ground lightning with two or three anvil crawlers. The storm caught several people off guard with a sudden burst of heavy rain and pea sized hail.
i saw ball lightning one time when i was younger. i was staying at my grandparents' house in pennsylvania and we were watching tv in the living room during a storm. we heard the loudest sound i've ever heard and jumped up to look out the window. a ball of what looked like the sun was rolling down the metal handrail on the stairs outside. it was loud and bright and quite terrifying. you could feel the static in the air for a few moments before it dissipated. it was absolutely insane, and i don't think i'll ever experience something like it again.
Because you didn't catch it on film, no one will ever believe you. But, I do. My father, now dead, saw it once, as a child. My father was a very devout Christian. He was also a wonderful story teller, part of the oral tradition of the poor folk of the depression. He would regal us with stories of the people and times of his youth spent struggling to survive during the great depression. He said, once when he was very young and his parents were share croppers, a very bad storm came through their settlement. They had no electricity, so, after night fell, the entire country side was dark except for the lightning strikes. The family had gotten up and gone to the windows as the storm was so intense. One of the strikes was right at a fence line close to the house. After the initial strike, the whole family watched in amazement as a large ball of light then traveled down the length of the barbed wire until it reached a corner post then disappeared. He was about 6 or 7. Until he died, at 87, he never forgot the sight, nor did his siblings. Nor did any of them ever see it repeated. His family numbered 11 at the time and all the kids his age and up told the exact same thing. The two younger ones didn't remember the incident as one was only 4 and the other a toddler. I believe you.
@@cwavt8849 that is a great story! "Ball lightning" has been baffling scientists for hundreds of years; it isn't that scientists believe that "ball lightning" doesn't exist, instead, the problem with ball lightning comes down to the old scientific adage "if you can't measure it, you don't know what it is".
My own family has a similar story. During the 1940s my mother's family had a farm in Washington state. Lightening struck an outdoor pipe that then apparently followed the course of the plumbing into the kitchen where my grandmother, mother and aunt were all working. A ball of lightening popped out of the faucet, bounced around the sink and then out into the middle of the kitchen and vanished. I asked my family members about this many times over the years and I am convinced that they saw what appeared to be ball lightening.
Good pacing of information, pictures and talking speed. You neither went too fast to understand nor too slow. . I have ADD and get bored by too many pauses or slow presentations. I also have some language-processing issues, so usually I have to (sigh and) ask people to slow down, but it's mostly really because they have failed to enunciate properly and so blur all their words into each other. . Thank you for not mumbling. You were clear and easy to understand, so I had no problems with that. Although I appreciate that you put your narration into text in the description box anyway. : ) . And today I learned that there is more than one kind of lightning! Neato. ^__^
depressed thoughts I doubt God gave you that sign being that it represents 666. That is why Hollywood and the music industry makes that all the time. Just sayin. I’m sure you didn’t know though.
I have only seen one "ball lightning" in my life...I was standing in my backyard and it was about the size of the moon from earth...anyway. this ball thing forms in the sky, and then it disappears, and then 3 seconds later it reappears and surges across the sky. add that sighting to your book. (I don't know if that was ball lightning, but what I saw that night fits your description pretty well)
g-c lightning is caused by electrical discharges from tall buildings if the storm has lots of -ions the electricity of the building ( +ions) will strike up into the air (elctrostatic will occur)
1:13 Hank: During a lightning storm you don't wanna be the tallest thing standing around. Me: MAH SHORT ASS SELF IS SAFE-- Hank: But that doesn't mean your safe if your the shortest Me: *FUUUUUUUU--*
Watched 10 videos of your back to back Love your content man You keep it interesting with visual and information and I really like your voice You're doing great work sir
Amazing and informative video! Really great footage - here in Perth we don't tend to get truly massive storms, and practically never get tornadoes. I've never seen upward lighting before.
i visited the house of someone who had a close-up and personal experience with ball lightning. She narrated it's formation,coming into her house off a metal-framed window, "rolling"off the sash and then rolled along the floor for quite a few feet leaving a scorched melted carpet trail. It then jumped towards an electric outlet and disappeared. The burn scars were certainly consistent with her account, and she was visibly shaken by the incident.
Ddfdfcddx I have to go to Matsuda I ue you have r u doing now baby girl is a good day at work and I have to go to Matsuda I ue you have a good day at the end up in my head is spinning and I will have the same thing I can do that t I don't know how much I love
As always, Hank, your photography and videography are excellent! The Slo-Mo Guys have a video where they try to image lightning. If I can find it, I'll drop a link.
I am a water well driller and was drilling in northern N.S.W. in 1975 and a storm came overhead so we stopped driller got in a truck and moved away from the rig about 10 min later a ball of lightning hit the rig our mast is 50 feet tall in the air in the next 30 minutes 3 more cam down So yes they are real
3:25, "for the best result, make sure you take the lens cap off."
thank you for the tips. i was wondering why my photos always looked blank black.
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Gotta make sure that cap is off lol
When I was a kid, I was coming home with my Dad, and his friend. We were miles from town, but we saw the lightning hit the ground. We thought it hit our TV antenna, but it hit the neighbor's tree, splitting it in half. Almost 40 years later, I can still see that bolt!
Oof the 80s
must be weird to see the lightning in black and white
@@David-wi1ou lmao
That is an awesome memory! I wouldn't forget to see something like that, either.
@@voizzrb6944 whats funny
Its 2am and I’m learning about lighting rather than sleeping
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Same here
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It's weird, I did not even realize there was different types of lightning. I have only ever seen cloud to ground lighting myself. So it's really cool to learn that mother nature can produce more than one kind!
I hate to say it but...
This video was shocking
King bat Com WHY JUST WHY
Wendy The koopling he is just telling a joke. get it? shocking? like you got shocked by lightning
Lol
King bat Com *sarcasm laugh* ha ha ha nice pun
Change forward your name
Lightning is beautiful and scary
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Are you mad dark night when anyone Disrespects ALLAH then he get mad and he send lightning
Mostly lighting is scary for some peeps but me I’m calm because it strikes our house all the time my bother gets scared but my sis and I keep him calm. Me during a storm 😊 my sister during a storm 🎧😎 my bother during a storm ☹️
Clash Master I asked my mosque teacher he said on days Allah talks with his angels shaytan tries to listen to the conversation but there are some other angels guarding and when they find or see shaytan they throw lighting at shaytan
2:09 I never related so much to lightning before
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Same
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Brutal relation
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I believe I saw ball lightning once (Quite a while after I saw this video too).
I went for a walk right before this massive storm entered my town, I was constantly looking up at the clouds to see if the lightning was getting closer, which it was, so I kept a reasonable pace (basically jogging). I quickly looked up to check the sky, when I noticed a small glowing ball drop straight out of the clouds, and hit the ground a block away from me. It didn’t make a sound when it hit.
At that point I thought ‘screw this!’ And I sprinted home.
It’s safe to say I always check the weather radar if I think a storm is around now.
(P.s. This was in Aus)
Maybe it was a bird that got hit and fell out of the sky?
@@NevTheDeranged well I didn’t see any lightning or birds in the area before the ball appeared. Although the ‘ball’ did fall out of the clouds, so it might be a possibility that something like that occurred in the clouds. (I will also note, I didn’t hear any thunder directly afterwards either).
@@kingwillthe2nd821 no way to know. More fun to assume it was ball lightning, though ;)
… aliens
@@NevTheDeranged Yeah for sure :)
Imagine seeing an “extremely rare” never seen before lightning strike
without a camera
I was like i regret I didn’t record this
But when i recorded nothing much happens
@@ytakarhaegar6666 I saw a VERY close one and it shot on the second I recorded so I didnt see it ;/
Oof
I would draw one
that would be an oof
"for the best results make sure you take your lens cap off."
Khalil Fauntleroy ikr😂😂😂😂
Khalil Fauntleroy hahahahahaha
Ruby a lens cap is this front thing in the camera before recording
Hey, he did that just for the stupid people.
@@baristunc8532 oh my bubble blower I'm gonna eat this green gumdrop it's I found it on the ground and I'm sure it's okay
It's confirmed, Bigfoot can conduct lightning
And also that ball lighting can't be seen by taking a selfie!
+Adolf Jong un XD welp HE IS A BITCH!!!
we are fucked
True. He has strange telepathic powers that cause balls of electricity.
Dammit!
Speaking of Ball lightning that you mention at the end, I have witnessed it once. I was pretty young, but i remember a powerful electrical storm passing through the area, and being a young kid, it was a little scary. It was night and I was supposed to be in bed, but couldn't sleep, so i was peeking out my window, and saw the glowing orb just floating slowly in the air until it made contact with a telephone pole in the corner of the backyard, and released a bright flash, the loudest crack of thunder Ive ever heard. And of course it knocked out the transformer on the pole and killed power to that little part of our neighborhood. Was in Spokane, WA. in the mid 80's.
0:56 Intracloud lightning is so beautiful😍
Thor stop doing it, we are scared!
Slime Studio haha Thor fighting loki
Lol
MikeTheLegend its a joke
Cookie Gurl its a joke
BrianThePro oof
0:57, alien's disco party under clouds!
'tis MY disco party :3
And you still believe in aliens? 😂🤣PLEASE! Stop watching star wars and star streak please for you own good🤝🏻that's if you want to wrought up mentally
@@jeffreym4370 lmao! I had never watched Star War's single episode. But still, I feel Aliens exist. Though it's just a belief , like many feel people travel Heaven or Hell after Death. That's just a natural belief. Although I didn't connect the situation with this video. It was just a joke actually. 😁
JEFFREY M have you heard of the area 51 raid idiot
the alien's do be hitting those beats 🤩🤩
Hank, ball lightning tortured me when I was 3 and 4. My parents live in a very old house and it had a tree scraping the wire that connected the house to the power lines. There were many huge storms in the summer and one night something glowing was rolling around the metal frame on my canopy bed. I was terrified. Then one night I was in the bath and one of those ball things came out of the bathroom light fixture and went into the hallway phone, killing it. My dad saw it too. I think a few more floated around my room and I ran screaming into my parents room. Eventually they cut the tree and it stopped. I had nightmares about the things attacking me for like a year.
My great grandparents, grandparents, my mom, and aunt witnessed ball lighting "float" as you said right through their house. My great grandmother had a small cottage and all were staying there for the summer. One extremely hot summer day, a thunderstorm came in off the water as they usually did and while all were sitting in the living room, one of those ball things went in the front door and out the back.
This wasn't a one person saw it because everyone recounted the same story with absolute consistency right up until they all passed away including my mom who passed in 2018. For years afterwards, my great grandmother would lock the doors, pull the shades, and sit in a corner in the dark and wait out a storm as it passed by.
I have nightmares about that a 1 meter sized ball lightning will come into my house and push me into a corner... And then I wake up at 1am and don't get enough sleep.
(Side note) One time my school got hit by a lightning strike and all power went out for like 5-10 seconds. There wasn't ball lightning but everyone freaked out except me and the teacher.
I saw ball lightning when I was a little kid. It came out of a thunderhead several miles away and floated down diagonally toward where I was at. I was sitting on the steps of the front porch. All I could do is watch it coming. I feel like it woulda hit me if it didn't run into the across the street neighbor's transformer and explode.
It was just a real bright "cool white" flickering ball. From beginning to end the whole thing must have lasted about 2 minutes. I hope I never forget that experience. Cause it sure was awesome.
literally millions of people have seen it, yet no one has image or video. So weird
@@trystian8539 I agree
@@trystian8539 I saw something similar once but tbh I though it was a UFO, it went upwards rather than down.
Holy shit I saw one too, so bizarre
Likewise, as a kid also!
3:25 laughed harder than I should have
SquashHead lol
🤣 make sure the lens cap off🤣
You shoulden laugh. lightning is serious Do you want to get hurt by lightning.
@@ItshimTheBeyBoy its a joke bru
Lightning is bad you can get killed from lightning
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A lot of people have seen ball lighting, but it's still extremely rare. I knew a retired airlines pilot who said that it formed on the nose of the airplane and slowly move down the inside all the way to the back. It's probably come complicated form of static electricity.
My favorite part was the lightning 🌩
BrianNotBryan hm yeah that too 🤔
Nah i like the part when the man caught with his camera the lighiting
@@meowpoosaymeow What about the part when there was lighting?
Same
__B__r__a__i__n__ no
I saw ball lightning for the first time last year. I was filming a thunderstorm and it looked like the best of it was over, so of course I stopped the camera. No more than five minutes later, my brother and I watched as a bright ball--maybe the size of a beach ball or as small as a baseball--floated nearby. It was hard to tell size and distance because it was so bright. I was sort of paralyzed, awestruck. The thing blew up just like lightning after maybe ten or fifteen seconds existing as an orb. I'm absolutely pissed that I stopped the camera--the ball would have been visible right in its path. Ugh. That wasn't the only missed opportunity. I also missed lightning striking a barn and setting it on fire. Really, I've learned my lesson. Don't stop recording until the sky is blue.
Excellent video as always, Hank. My favorite storm chaser/snake handler.
+Make-Make Maybe one of these days I'll get to see it... and even better, record it. Thanks for the story dude!
+Pecos Hank
I've scoured a variety of sources and the only credible footage I have ever found of ball lighting is described here. At one point I found the original paper but have since lost the link. This the best I can find currently.
medium.com/looking-up/ball-lightning-b594b6ffea37#.bj476lkr6
It was incidentally captured by a lightning research team that was studying normal lightning.
Melting Sky thank you for the link.
Your weather videos should be used for elementary school science classes. You are a great teacher. I think kids would really enjoy and thereby learn well from your content.
Heli-dodge I'll second that.
Heli-dodge pfft, he said lightning comes from the sky, it comes from the ground
In high school my friend and I would chase storms up in Montana. One of the greatest things we ever saw was gigantic symmetrical lightning. Like a Rorschach test kind of thing. It wasn’t just once either but many strikes that had a mirror image in that storm. It was so intense and beautiful, I will never forget it. I’ve tried looking it up multiple times over the years and have never been able to find anything about it. Just a once in a lifetime kind of thing, I guess. Has anyone else experienced this?
Yes! I have experienced once.
1:49 Imagine getting hit directly by that 0_0
You won't be alive anymore
you would have on the tree to get hit but near it would give burns instantly
I almost got hit from lightening when I was 7 or 8 I'm 10
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You’d turn into a Titan
4:15 Predicting the death of Harambe in 2015. My hero.
Blowjays he died in 2016
he said it was like a theory IDIOT
He meant that he predicted the death of Harambe in 2015. He never proclaimed Harambe died in 2015.
Elijah TheKing I like how you don't get what a joke is.
Blowjays Who is Harambe?
A lightning is just a natural phenomen
AOT Fan: No it's not
Yes, it's not
Today its a thonderstorm i got a foto of one it loked like the sun
I just searched his up for sinbad but i am a aot fan
hello boy
found my people
The strangest lightning I've seen was actually in western NY. We were in the hills and a microburst took out our tent, luckily my fam also had a camper nearby. We decided to sit in the car and watch the show. We pulled up to a spot where we could see out over a few hilltops. The magic moment was when about 5 bolts crawled across the cloud base towards eachother. They joined together and formed a huge blue-white bolt that hit the hilltop directly across from us! It was blinding and the crack made our hair stand on end. I was surprised we didn't see something catch fire! We went back in the morning to see if we could spot where it hit but sadly saw nothing. Never have I seen one like it before or since!
"lonely upward streamers failing to make a connection" -thats me
😭😭😭
I feel this comment so hard...
Well because yours is so damn tiny
No offense. No pun. No drama.
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Build a bridge and get the f*** over it.
2015: Nope
2016: Nah
2017: Nope
2018: Nope
2019: Perfect
manuel garcia It’s in 2017. Not on 2017
@@proud00baby I mean who cares
Dylan Christman I do
manuel garcia Am I a Mr? No, but thanks smartass
Dylan Frost Who?
01:44 ereh turned into a titan
THIS IS NOT ANIME WTF
Aotis
@@questaa18 Who cares anime is the best
@@katicahancae5568 its different between irl and animes
@egg no shit
When I was like 8, I was looking outside during a storm and saw ball lightning. I haven’t seen it since, and I’ve lived in the really intense stuff in north Texas. So I can say that it is real. Just EXTREMELY rare
Lol 😂
I think Ive seen it once, it was pretty eerie. I was looking out the window at night, and this blue ball of flickering light passed by. I assumed it was ball lightning, what else could it possibly have been?
1:22 That lightning bolt in the middle. The other two bolts must be like, "Bro, do you even know how to lightning?"
yea ikr!
Middle lightning bolt: "Fuuuuuutureeeeeee Fuuuuuuuuutureeeeeeeee!" (Squidward)
Middle lightning: Sorry it's my first day
Kunal. Sahu
lightning do not speak sorry...
A lightning orb flew threw my house before in Australia it destroyed the window
ball lightning is more of a property destroyer
I had a weird experience with ball lightning in the 1970s. I was at the dining room table at 2AM doing homework. All of a sudden, a intensely bright glowing ball about the size of a soccer ball floated about 6" above the floor in the kitchen. It made a quiet sizzling sound. I stared at it. I had read about ball lightning, but all I could do when I actually saw it was stare with my mind a complete blank. It exploded with a deafening booming pop, like a transformer box exploding. The whole experience was only a second or two. No property damage. My sister, who had been sleeping, ran downstairs thinking something had exploded. When I told her what I had seen, she was pissed that she had missed it.
Every other person who describes their experience with ball lightning sounds very similar to mine.
cool
lucky you weren't killed. It has been known to kill. My brother believes he may have seen it travelling through the sky.
storm3698 : Dang. Killed by ball lightning. Then I wouldn't have had to do homework anymore.
Lightning is beautiful
Most ppl are afraid of it but I find it fascinating
Team Tundra 2 2 seconds later you get struck
Same
Big chugis
Have one of those falling close to you and we'll see if you won't be afraid lol
True my mum said its beautiful to watch when your away from it but don't get to close to the lightning it can hurt you badly!
I absolutely love this channel. I did a report on tornados when I was in the 7th grade. I’m now 68 so that was almost before electricity was discovered. Haha. Your variety of information, calm demeanor and wicked sense of humor is unmatched by any other doing this type of work. I watched others but often interpersonal strife was too distracting. (TIV) And another was pretty good but I couldn’t take the screaming’Back Up’ when the driver was doing that already. (Dominator) I know I didn’t give enough clues for identifying some of those others but I’m just mean like that. 🤣😇
Please keep up your terrific work. You are very much appreciated!!
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@@michaelnolan7724how could this comment possibly need to have been edited?
Who else just woke up and got bored and clicked on this
Wtf why did I get so many likes on this, but thank you 🥺😊❤️❤️
I would die for your pfp
I woke up at 11:23 and got bored
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You read my mind
Ivy Ninja me
Let's just say, "Although lightning may seem 'beautiful to some people, its effects are dangerous and SHOCKING."
Pun very much intended
GEEKYGAMER more like this pun was stolen
@@MaxMorrisTV No, I thought of it, don't make assumptions about people that you don't even know are true. :\
Pun?
GEEKYGAMER αgяєє∂
Moree like cringee
I've been a lonely upward streamer failing to make connections all my life!
Before I never knew anything about lightning but after watching this video I learned so much from it! I didn’t even know what chain lightning was until I saw this! It’s still good to rewatch this memory of a video
Hank, you have to be one of the "coolest" people on youtube. The Patterson film shot was just too funny! If you really are in Pecos, I would like to "do lunch" with you the next time I breeze through there.
Howdy Ed. I earned the nickname "Pecos" because of my affiliation with tornadoes and rattlesnakes. Remember, Pecos Bill lassoed at tornado with a rattlesnake... And second my spending Summers in the Pecos River valley. I do pass through the town from time to time but nobody recognizes me. Happy Trails friend.
EdWatts y
KPH
Pecos Hank lol I have been wondering how u got the name...snake/storm chaser that my friend is something you don't hear of often. love your vids and the way you explain the content.keep doin what u do the way u do
EdWatts wa
LOL I love the photo of ball lightning.
master DOGE link?
It almost hit Harambe
(ik its not harambe but then again idk)
L e a h ℓσℓ
Yiṣḥāq David hmmmm it's called the CHIDORI
lilmarco gaming XDDDDDDDDD
50%no this is fake it has to be!
20% this is so creepy and scary
1% (me) THIS IS AMAZING!!
Alex Angle where is the other 29 percent, just joking
Scar Lxrd oh this
29% oh I've seen every lightning I'm The best blah blah blah
Alex Angle lol
Scar Lxrd yeah these ppl are sassy
SAME
3:29 this is a cool technique to get those. I guess that they'll look better if the motion is done automatically with some motor to have a smooth uniform turn.
When I was young, a ball lightning went into our house through the window and bounced around in the kitchen. I am not even kidding, it was horrifying!
+Peter Bucek hadouken!
When I was a kid I'm almost positive that I saw ball lighting. All I can remember is a glowing orb above the apartment across the street from ours.
Travis McVay could it maybe have been a reflection of some sort?
+aaron brooks Shut up sceptic!
Peter Bucek nice way to voice an opinion.
Earth: **does little lightning firecrackers**
Saturn: "Hold my beer."
But seriously... A very interesting video, and one hell of a collection of footage and stills. (Plus, that trick for catching the different flickers is a stroke of genius.) Don't forget those frightening "positive-charge" bolts, either - especially since they can create "sprites" in the upper-atmosphere. Though fat lot of good it does those of us who are on the ground and under said storms...
yall saying thor and putting on SHOCKING puns..
but yall havent heard of someone becoming a titan?
LMAO that was a good one
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YOU DAMN TRAITORS!!!!
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Thank you for describing "chain" lightning.😀 I only ever saw it once, many years ago, and I didn't know the name for it. A strangely slow moving lightning bolt struck the ground less than a mile away and seemed to break up into a necklace of glowing spheres which then faded out quickly but individually. The last few seemed to be drifting with the wind. The accompanying thunderclap rattled the house windows behind me. It was just so beautiful and awesome. (I'm not a storm chaser, but I really enjoy watching them.)
To me lightning is not even scary. I think it's pretty cool and epic
Bethart Animation yo me too also ball lightning does exist...
Ever heard of Pikachu.
i wanna be hit by it and know what happens
yes it is
Is god
A new You
U forgot the lighting when someone turns into a titan
lol I was thinking the same
probably there is a 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.1 chance
@@Philippine_Navyist16 wait u said 00000000000000000000.1 chance.. but theres a one..
And also the occasional nuclear explosion with the lightning
@@Philippine_Navyist16
,!,!?!,!
0:16 Thor is here
Hahahahah now hammer
Who tf is Thor!
Thor is fake
@@sinister7651 You don't know Thor, seriously. Google it
@@theshowstopper979 r/wooooosh
I have seen ball lightning. It was around 1.5 metres across, and so bright we could not look at it without squinting and covering our eyes. I was driving down the side of a shallow and narrow valley, on the right hand wall of the valley, about half way up the slope. The road was flat and level. We were returning from a day of skiing. It was dusky and starting to get dark at the time.
The ball appeared from nowhere roughly in the middle of the valley about 50 metres ahead of the old '72 Landcruiser and maybe 70 metres left and at roughly the same altitude. It was moving away from us slowly but in the same direction, and so I chased it. I estimate it was doing around 70mph up the valley. It held a straight path and altitude from our perspective, and it lasted about 15 seconds, although it felt longer.
When it ended, it simply winked out of existence, just like a normal lightning bolt, leaving us four guys with some heavy streaks in our vision. One of the guys thought it was an alien craft/UFO, but I was quick to disabuse him of that notion.
It was a pretty freaky experience though, and I'll never forget it.
Two Thumbs up - Would experience again!
Edit: All four of us discussed our shared experience extensively on the hour-long trip home, and we all agreed that we saw the same thing, as we described it to each other repeatedly. This was in about 1985 or so. Long before cameras became ubiquitous. It looked blue white. Similar in colour to an arc welding plasma but it was steadier in brightness.
99% of comments: Something to do with the word Shocking or a Thanos/Thor reference.
1% of comments: anything other than the word "Shocking or Thanos/Thor.
😏
@Delta Lima Bravo true.
Yup
Aaliyah Parks yup
@Delta Lima Bravo Aren't you just a ray of sunshine?? Keep on beaming
The ground to cloud lightning looks like a time lapse of a tree growing.
or like a timelapse of a lightning tree growing XD
@@patrykwlodarz yes that's a better way to put it
Any video from pecos Hank I'll watch, they're all good. :D
Papa John can I have a free pizza
About a month ago, Los Angeles, the city I live in, experienced a rare severe thunderstorm with an epic lightning show. There was constant cloud to ground lightning with two or three anvil crawlers. The storm caught several people off guard with a sudden burst of heavy rain and pea sized hail.
i saw ball lightning one time when i was younger. i was staying at my grandparents' house in pennsylvania and we were watching tv in the living room during a storm. we heard the loudest sound i've ever heard and jumped up to look out the window. a ball of what looked like the sun was rolling down the metal handrail on the stairs outside. it was loud and bright and quite terrifying. you could feel the static in the air for a few moments before it dissipated. it was absolutely insane, and i don't think i'll ever experience something like it again.
I think what you saw was simply lightning striking your house. That "ball" effect was most likely seeing spikes of energy moving along the path.
Because you didn't catch it on film, no one will ever believe you. But, I do. My father, now dead, saw it once, as a child. My father was a very devout Christian. He was also a wonderful story teller, part of the oral tradition of the poor folk of the depression. He would regal us with stories of the people and times of his youth spent struggling to survive during the great depression. He said, once when he was very young and his parents were share croppers, a very bad storm came through their settlement. They had no electricity, so, after night fell, the entire country side was dark except for the lightning strikes. The family had gotten up and gone to the windows as the storm was so intense. One of the strikes was right at a fence line close to the house. After the initial strike, the whole family watched in amazement as a large ball of light then traveled down the length of the barbed wire until it reached a corner post then disappeared. He was about 6 or 7. Until he died, at 87, he never forgot the sight, nor did his siblings. Nor did any of them ever see it repeated. His family numbered 11 at the time and all the kids his age and up told the exact same thing. The two younger ones didn't remember the incident as one was only 4 and the other a toddler. I believe you.
@@cwavt8849 that is a great story!
"Ball lightning" has been baffling scientists for hundreds of years; it isn't that scientists believe that "ball lightning" doesn't exist, instead, the problem with ball lightning comes down to the old scientific adage
"if you can't measure it, you don't know what it is".
@@cwavt8849 you should start a you tube channel, I'd subscribe to hear more of their memories.
My own family has a similar story. During the 1940s my mother's family had a farm in Washington state. Lightening struck an outdoor pipe that then apparently followed the course of the plumbing into the kitchen where my grandmother, mother and aunt were all working. A ball of lightening popped out of the faucet, bounced around the sink and then out into the middle of the kitchen and vanished. I asked my family members about this many times over the years and I am convinced that they saw what appeared to be ball lightening.
I died on 4:13. I haven't laughed like that in a long time.
Deividas Radžiūnas why were you laughing at 4:13?
Did you mean 3:23?
@@kelvisaisawesome it looks like a shadow of bigfoot
I guess lighting can strike more than twice
Bruh it's big foot getting blasted by goku how can you not laugh lmaoooo
Lightning scares me so much I dont know why I decided to watch this
And zenitsu breathing
Good pacing of information, pictures and talking speed. You neither went too fast to understand nor too slow.
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I have ADD and get bored by too many pauses or slow presentations. I also have some language-processing issues, so usually I have to (sigh and) ask people to slow down, but it's mostly really because they have failed to enunciate properly and so blur all their words into each other.
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Thank you for not mumbling. You were clear and easy to understand, so I had no problems with that. Although I appreciate that you put your narration into text in the description box anyway. : )
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And today I learned that there is more than one kind of lightning! Neato. ^__^
Me: god give me a sign
God: 👌
Me:🤔
You: 🤔
Me: 😂
✋🏻👕👌🏻
👖
Eat my food 😷
Yui Avery Hondrade no.
gottem
depressed thoughts I doubt God gave you that sign being that it represents 666. That is why Hollywood and the music industry makes that all the time. Just sayin. I’m sure you didn’t know though.
I almost got struck by lightning...
*T W I C E*
Forca Barçelona! *N O I C E*
It means *Y O U R D E A D*
ᖙαиιɛƖ ツシ rly 😐
ᖙαиιɛƖ ツシ *rip*
ᖙαиιɛƖ ツシ same
Who's here after watching slo-mo guys?
Me boi
Meh
M3h
Me
ME!
Hank, I just wanted to let you know that I watch your educational and storm chasing videos to fall asleep.
Pikachu use thunder strike
"Super Effective"
Your enemy is paralyzed it can't move
I’m pretty sure my opponent is *dead*
*nani*
omae wa......
@@aaztha415 Mou shindeiru
Przemek Goti Nani
I have only seen one "ball lightning" in my life...I was standing in my backyard and it was about the size of the moon from earth...anyway. this ball thing forms in the sky, and then it disappears, and then 3 seconds later it reappears and surges across the sky. add that sighting to your book. (I don't know if that was ball lightning, but what I saw that night fits your description pretty well)
yeah me too, but it went out of one cloud into the other.
hmm
maybe someone failed to shoot a perfect kamehameha
I saw a ball lightning at epcot because it's was a huge lighting storm nearby
LGamerr ball lightning lasts for max 2 seconds
I pretty much died at the end of this video, haha.
why
a ball lighting on top of bigfoot. If you didn't understand and see the funny aspect of that I'm not sure I want to start to explain to you either.
Oh ok i see now
How many years of research of lightning must be this video
lightning may be dangerous, but it will never not be beautiful
@@chrystaldowns688 I think you may have the cancer
I have the corona virus. And hope to infect everyone with it
I've never seen lighting come up from the ground like that, & just when I thought it couldn't get more frightening.
rhyme Minister
Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me.
g-c lightning is caused by electrical discharges from tall buildings if the storm has lots of -ions the electricity of the building ( +ions) will strike up into the air (elctrostatic will occur)
@@Philippine_Navyist16 That's alot of raw power to just suddenly strike from the surface.
I'm glad that we have people like this guy on video for the world
Guys Don't be hurt by Lightning just be safe rn
1:13
Hank: During a lightning storm you don't wanna be the tallest thing standing around.
Me: MAH SHORT ASS SELF IS SAFE--
Hank: But that doesn't mean your safe if your the shortest
Me: *FUUUUUUUU--*
Me at that exact moment.
At least you won't bump your head on shit trying to get away..
@@chado3000 lol that's true. All I'm gonna do is fall 🤣
🤣
0:41 thats like from a badass Sci-Fi movie
blade runner
Tenth strike
"You've been...
THUNDER STRUCK!!!!"
dun dun dun
*THUNDERSTRUCK*
YEAH YEAH YEAH!
Ed*
AC/DC is the best
*ROAD DOWN THE HIGHWAY*
Watched 10 videos of your back to back
Love your content man
You keep it interesting with visual and information and I really like your voice
You're doing great work sir
So freakin cool! I thought I knew a lot about severe storms. I've learned so much more from this channel.
2:36 THAT is ball lightning
Edwin Jacinto
Edwin Jason to
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Dan Anderson
lol
Dan Anderso
Amazing and informative video! Really great footage - here in Perth we don't tend to get truly massive storms, and practically never get tornadoes. I've never seen upward lighting before.
Don't worry.eren is just training.
I died when he said the thing about having the lens cap off :'D Pinnacle of comedy but as a photographer I can relate so much :DDD
Lightning: "i will kill u"
Earth: "no u"
Lel
U sus bruh...
Red Crewmate was A Imposter
1 imposter remains.
lightning sus. maybe
Red crewmate was impostor
1impostor remains
Look’s like thor found noobmaster 69
Wazzap Gerald lmao *_-ENDGAME-_* 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Ha lol🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for explaining & adding all info in the description as well.
from Great Britain.
(Tue 22 June 2021 11h31)
I love sitting with a hot cup of coffee, and watching lightnings strike
1:43 when they connect....
*electrostatic 1 billion volts discharge*
4:32 omg that so big lightning
Jay the Gamer on Roblox! Didn’t get me
Loved this as I do all your content. It’s the best!
Your channel is my favorite!
Very informative, extremely compassionate towards wildlife.
And just amazing 🤩
Oh and that hair!!!!!🤩
Love it. Been interested in the weather since 1983
how to be the flash
1. catch the lightning
2. now boom . you are now the flash
G.O.A.T.
Shhrl Syfq lol am good
Shhrl Syfq lol
Ikr
I tried that, and I'm dead now. Is there any way to reverse this, like maybe catching another lightning?
i visited the house of someone who had a close-up and personal experience with ball lightning. She narrated it's formation,coming into her house off a metal-framed window, "rolling"off the sash and then rolled along the floor for quite a few feet leaving a scorched melted carpet trail. It then jumped towards an electric outlet and disappeared. The burn scars were certainly consistent with her account, and she was visibly shaken by the incident.
Those lightning strikes are almost giving a heart attack dude🥺
Nobody:
Me: *a tItAn sHifTeR!*
《Canadia Williams》 Did you make an Aot reference?
A UA-cam channel of mine there is always time for an AOT reference
Literally Nobody, all the rest are making crappy thor jokes
Maybe Eren is in Titan Training
Ddfdfcddx I have to go to Matsuda I ue you have r u doing now baby girl is a good day at work and I have to go to Matsuda I ue you have a good day at the end up in my head is spinning and I will have the same thing I can do that t I don't know how much I love
👍🤣 The plausible ball lightning photo! 😂😂🤣
As always, Hank, your photography and videography are excellent!
The Slo-Mo Guys have a video where they try to image lightning. If I can find it, I'll drop a link.
Here :
m.ua-cam.com/video/qQKhIK4pvYo/v-deo.html
I think what sets you apart is you don't scream every cuss word in the book when you see a tornado or lightning.
I's hard to curse when your jaw is on the floor. I drool instead.
+Pecos Hank ahahaha!
+Pecos Hank pfft lol
He still yells four letter words when hail breaks his windows.
Ray Ray Pike lol
I've seen Ball Lightning, in fact, I have several versions of it in my Magic: The Gathering collection.
Hahahaha xD awesome game!
I always thought ball lightning was real, thanks for another great video.. I really love learning about weather... Some amazing stuff. Thanks again.
+One Akay I'm not saying it isn't real. Thanks for watching One Akay.
+Pecos Hank My grandmother once saw ball lightning.
+Hillcow how do we know that
Caiden Wichert you dont
Hillcow :P
I am a water well driller and was drilling in northern N.S.W. in 1975 and a storm came overhead so we stopped driller got in a truck and moved away from the rig about 10 min later a ball of lightning hit the rig our mast is 50 feet tall in the air in the next 30 minutes 3 more cam down
So yes they are real