AMAZING Lightning Up CLOSE & Personal: HD video and stills
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Extreme close-ups of lightning strikes to a television antenna mast, shot simultaneously on HD video and high-res DSLR still images (the shutter sound of the DLSR camera can be heard). Includes slow motion replays. These are some of the most detailed close-up images of lightning channels in existence. Visible phenomena include channel drift and bead-out, upward leaders and arc-weld sparks and smoke from the tower tip. See more at stormhighway.co... Copyright Dan Robinson. Music Licensed From MusicBakery.com
After all these years this is still the best lightning footage ever taken!!
Nice! I am a retired TV/Radio Transmitter Engineer. I can tell you that being inside a transmitter shack at the tower base during an electrical storm is insane! Keep the videos coming!
Do you have to stay away from the equipment inside the transmitter shack when there's lightning? I can imagine the voltage must rise pretty high on the antenna feedlines, despite most of it bleeding off into the ground system?
Amazing video Dan. I was the Chief Engineer at WVAH when this happened and when the old tower collapsed. As soon as I saw the first frame I knew what tower it was without seeing the description. The shower of sparks is partially the sharp pointed stainless spikes flying off of the arrestor. That top antenna was the old Chanel 8 analog antenna and below that is the olf WVAH analog antenna. The digital antenna for WVAH and WCHS is on the bottom and just the top of it is visible.
Did you help build the new wchs towed
Tower
I could have watched this for another hour. I love weather and lightning. Fabulous video.
I have to watch this every time I come across it. Phenomenal stuff, as always Dan!
I bet this place has been a go-to for years for amazing lightning photography. I especially love the one at 3:44... Geez, that smoke...
Really awesome video!! Amazing to see the perfect capture of so many discharges to that tower. With all the hot metal shards flying, that square guard must be wearing thin!!!
Awesome when slowed down time lapse :-)
I can think back why Ben Was so thrilled about the kite and key test :-)
Blessings, :-)
This was so good. I just have one question. What poor sap has to climb that tower and fix it every time it gets struck? Do you draw straws or what?
Amazing captures, thanks. It's enjoyable with some astonishing feelings to see each bolt hits. I wonder how often should they repair the top of the tower.
Awesome video! the fragments are amazing! You Rock!
Incredible work.... Thank You....
loving that pulsing of the strike not bam but bam bam bam
It's magic, a video is breathtaking, I love !
Good work, Dan - nice vid. Hard to imagine the lightning doesn't effect the antenna operations but I'm assuming it was designed that way?
Fantastic !
The discharge is hitting the lightning arrester and not the active elements of the antenna, that's how it stays transmitting. The arrester or lightning conductor is often a sharp metal conductor pointing skyward at the highest point, and leads a conduction path straight to ground. "Point action" at the tip of the conductor will cause a stream of positive ions to the negative cloud which may discharge the cloud sufficiently to avoid a strike, but in the event of a strike the lightning is attracted to the positive point strikes it and it is conducted safely to ground. Avoiding all the active parts of the antenna array and doing its job perfectly.
Well, that's the "theory" anyway, whether nature actually obeys that line of human thinking is another thing entirely ... HV electric discharges forming conductive gas plasmas that can move and migrate to create new conductive channels do NOT behave in strict deterministic ways that you or I understand in a first pass analysis ...
In fact, that is not supposed to be a lightning "arrester" but a "dissipator" so it did not do the job it was supposed to do. The goal here is to dissipate the charges/ions on the tower completely and make the tower free of lightning. The only protected equipment here is the aviation obstruction bulb nothing else. Each strikes carries lightning current to ground through tower body and all equipment on tower are most probably completely destroyed. It would be impossible to take any of these pictures if the product at the top worked perfectly. Sorry.
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G- ! ! ! Greetings from Rio de Janeiro / Brazil !
brasil!!
Takes my breath away every time I see this...
That is one busy tower. I wonder what was being broadcast at the times the lightning occurred? Thanks for posting - great photography.
Probably episodes of Storm Chasers.
Re-runs of Thor...................
Excellent video, how we're you sheltering yourself? Did anyone else notice the two strikes on the lower structure of the tower (TV signal radiator?)? Lightning doesn't always hit the highest point of anything. You high rise dwellers, think about that next time you decide to watch a storm from your exposed balcony!
At 0:36 , the three sounds before the real sound of thunder we hear is the sound of the SPD against power surges, because the overvoltage propagates in the circuits at almost the same speed as that of light. Otherwise it can also be the electric induction in electrical circuits due to electromagnetic peak generated by the arc (the magnetic field is as fast as light). By thunder against mécannique is a wave, a shock wave due to instantaneous expansion after its heating at the same temperature as that prevailing at the surface of the sun, hence the powerful "explosion".
What about that click right before the strike?
man...this is stuff you just can't see with the naked eye...even at 100% speed???first of all! you're seldom staring at the exact spot a lightning bolt strikes! secondly your dim light vision gets ruined to the point where you could never make out the channel bead, etc with this much clarity...brilliant video
Really amazing! Best location and nice luck! Best lightning upclose ever!
Thanks for posting.
The blue is likely to be a reaction with the metal, not ball lightning. It's the same color of spark as when one welds with an arc welder.
Excellent photo and video extrapolation.
very interesting and educational:) thank you!
Excellent video, Awesome!! Wish I could have been there with you. I love a good thunderstorm. Where were you standing while watching and video recording this event?
The blue colored lights that come off the tower could be ball lightning. Besides the different color, they don't fall like the orange colored ones.
Amazing slowmotion of Lightning THX :)
WOW! Very very cool and interesting! Very good video!
Awesome video!
Very good work! great video! what is the name of the background music. I searched for music bakery but i didn't find any ambient-electronic related to this one !! :/
Thank you! The title of the music track is called "Deep Realms".
thanks for the update
Great video Dave! What device were you using to trigger your camera? I need one of those!
Amazing thank you
Hey Dan, where do you get that song? It sounds so soothing.
Magnificent! I really enjoyed this. Beautifully and sensitively produced. Awesome capture of God's fireworks.
Incredible....
Such a mesmerizing video to watch! Great work.
Anyone happen to know the name of the song?
if you shined a laser light up into a storm, could the laser draw the lightning to you? would it follow the laser? a lasor an go a mile with those little laser lights
Beautiful
And that, ladies and germs, is "The Electric Universe"
Whats interesting to me is that this tower is broadcasting the entire time this is going on. Even the strike a 7:22 that directly hits the array would not have shut it down.
y sobreviviste...creo ke eso fue lo mas increible..je
Great video ! proffesional stuff !
wow! amazing amazing amazing!
I'm curious, is the bead out the fading of the electrical current, or is it the fading of the superheated electric gas that the current has interacted with?
I would say it's due to the gas. There may be other factors at play too, so I would not dismiss your question entirely with my answer ...
the ion channel or super heated gases or plasma cools after the flow of current has ended.
Just worth noting the sparks coming the tower are not metal shards. If it was, there wouldn't be much left of the tower after a few storm seasons :P Most cases of sparks are actually ionized or super heated carbon and other impurities which can come from the atmosphere itself. Still, looks really pretty :P
7:37: that is St. Elmo's Fire! Bluish lightning that signals that the storm will be over for the next few minutes...
1.21 Gigawatts!
Great Scott!!!
1:21
At 3:46, that lightning strike literally obliterated that tower.
Wonder how often they change out those bird nests from so many lightning strikes over the years
Awesome
And that little light keeps on blinking
AMAZINGGGGG
What does tower do? Lighting hit it
cool and nice
Mr Tesla has joined the source above and is saying hello.
Could you not install a bank of capacitors and inductors to store this energy? Although it's probably the last thing the electric companies want us doing, it just seems like a plentiful and renewable energy source.
Not very plentiful, and not easy to "capture"... It's not as simple as adding a few Capacitors to a pole. Besides, a single lightning strike is only equivalent to about 150 litres of gasoline energy wise... which is easily extracted from the ground for pennies/litre, and can be stored for years... Even if someone could manage to design one that functioned properly, I doubt if anyone in the electric industry would even notice if everyone had lightning collectors installed...
Wonder what the top of the tower looks like.
War zone ...
See if you can climb up and find out? Just kidding..........not enough money in the world to make me go up to find out...........
4:25 If the cage around the beacon at the top of the tower loses a bit of metal like that each time it gets hit, I wonder if eventually it will burn through and fail?
Always wanted to build myself a faraday on the side of a building for this purpose.
SPARKLES!
I've managed to be hit by lightning twice in my life. Once I was hit while in my bed and once while I was standing in a gas station. I hope not to have it happen again.
Thats thunder must be LOUD
what is music??
SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0:36 1:11 1:31 1:50 2:08 2:45 3:05 3:44
I don't like tarndos and living but great videos
7:37 st elmos fire it occurs around ships and theres a myth if it rings around your head you would die but st elmos fire is rare and now I hate elmo XD
7:15 Small Lightning
wow
Why i cant see the ligtnining on th balck
Music composed by Windows 95 ;)
This can only be GOD
S_Glint
Looking for people to get scared
pretty boom boom lolz
Like
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Swweeeet lighting is out for killing :(
ASOME
I understood nothing
M´ 7:20??
Langweilig
great footage but too much of the same thing
Incredible! Great video. How can there be anything left of the lightening arrester after so many hits? What period of time do these videos cover?
I also love lightning.
0:36 1:11 1:31 1:50 2:08 2:45 3:05 3:44