Lightning from the Blue - Lightning striking OUTSIDE the thunderstorm
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2014
- In this video, you'll witness a rare kind of lightning strike, called a bolt from the blue. Basically most lightning strikes are negative strikes that occur under the cloud base. Only 5% of lightning strikes are positive strikes that come from the upper parts of the cloud. Many of these strikes are cloud-to-cloud, but some of them do make it to the ground, especially in a rapidly strengthening thunderstorm. This comes to show that a thunderstorm does not have to be in progress over your area for there to be a lightning hazard. These positive strikes can occur up to 10+ miles OUTSIDE the thunderstorm.
This happened in Arkansas during the summer in 2013. I live in Conway and there was a strong thunderstorm up around the town of Marshall. In Conway except for a few clouds the sky was sunny. Then with no warning lightning struck right outside my house. First the whole front of the house lit up followed by a very loud BANG!!!!
I saw a similar storm on March 16 2012 ( during the weirdest “late winter” heat wave here in Michigan ). The lightning wasn’t hitting the ground anywhere close, but it was definitely branching outside the parent cloud into the surrounding clear air. It looked like “anvil crawler” lighting, but the storm was in the growing stage and had no anvil. The branched lighting was simply spreading out into the clear blue sky next to the storm tower. I still have the video.
Pretty scary
I've been startled by a "bolt from the blue" from a distance of 13 miles. During a hot summer night in 2008 a high based thunderstorm missed my location to the north, but was able to strike very close to me from 13 miles away while I was walking to the nearby rail yard to shoot. I did not get it on video because I was more in "photo mode" and out to get more crisp lightning shots. BTW high based thunderstorms(with a high elevation cloud base) are awesome to shoot lightning at night, a considerable amount of the bolt is exposed.
And if you’re lucky, you maybe capture some red sprites
High based is definitely the way to go. Got some insane rouge bolts 10-15 miles away a couple years ago. The storm wasn’t even in a mature stage yet, no precip or anvil at the time they happened
thats nuts. I can hear the snap on the camera when the strike hit. too close for comfort...
Once in Colorado, a man was riding his bike with his dog. It was clear and sunny. There was a cumulonimbus cloud just barely visible behind a mountain. Suddenly, a big lightning bolt came out of that cloud and struck the bicyclist. Unfortunately, both the bicyclist and his dog were killed.
Wow! That's very unfortunate... What are the odds...
Thank you for opening your blind inside the house.
My best of these occurred in a sunny setting about 25 minutes or so after the storm had passed (A QLCS in this situation) It was ~8 miles away or so and let of a wave of rouge bolts, one of which that struck less than a quarter mile away from me and over my head. Got a streamer from that guy too.
There’s a lot of different ways these can happen it seems, I’m interested if anybody has a list or something compiling them all.
Bro I live right near there!
Just got woken up by one of these I think, two actually. First one sounded to be right outside of my house and the one that woke me up. It was louder than any lightning strike i've heard. Second one lit up my entire blinded window and the noise was further but almost just as loud, clear night skies, no thunderstorms or rainshowers from what i saw on the weather report. Crazy shit.
Lightning could strike 25 miles from a thunderstorm. So that means you got 2 of them
Typically called "clear air strikes". Would have preferred to see more of the actual storm.
Hold up is this McDonough, Ga
Huntersville, NC
@@cubecompmtdx thank you
Hwy check out weather Channel on their video feed and they explain this absolutely insane man made crap DEW all patented stuff
Like cloud seeding