The STRANGEST Electrical Natural Phenomena

This videos all about crazy electric and plasma related natural Phenomena. We're talking St Elmo's fire, ball lightning earthquake lights.. All sorts of crazy stuff. Thanks so much for watching and be sure to subscribe for more science/weather phenomenon!

Rudy Moore - St. Elmo's Fire on Lake Monona

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Highly Recommend Pecos Hank's Lightning, Jets, Sprites an Ghosts Videos:

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Contents:
0:00 St Elmo's Fire and Intro
2:12 Lightning
3:05 Sheet and Heat Lightning
3:40 Fork Lightning
4:20 Bead Lightning
4:35 Ribbon Lightning
5:00 Lightning Superbolts
5:30 Clear Sky Lightning
6:20 Ball Lightning
9:08 St. Elmo's fire
10:07 1955 Blackwell Tornado
11:30 Aurora
12:02 Red Aurora
12:30 STEVE
13:12 Earthquake Lights
14:05 Sprites, Jets, Elves
15:27 Bolides and Meteors

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[SwegleStudios]

Thanks for watching! Let me know the crazy electric phenomena you’ve seen! Also tornado video out next (for real this time)

[Artfanbookfan]

A man who saw inside a tornado in 1928 described it as a spinning circle with lightning and smaller funnels inside, almost like the F5 in Twister. For those interested, his name was Will Keller and it happened in Kansas.

[studuerson]

Pilot, 17k hours. Ive seen lots of St. Elmos fire. It occurred most often on 727s. I've even seen it enter the cockpit once. Had lightning strike the ac 3 times. THAT gets your attention. Auroras, of course. During my military air evac years, we carried a guy who'd been hit by lightning, it cooked the blood in his arm and legs.

[arthurr]

I have seen multi-color lightning in several storms over my lifetime. Red, green, blue, yellow lightning. Probably many different discharge types, but really awesome to see.

[BobJones-nffh]

Excellent video and information!

As to green lightning.. This happened in the mid eighties when I was a teenager. Family and I were driving cross country from California to South Carolina. It happened at just after dusk, it was beginning to sprinkle. We pulled over to the side of the interstate to walk the dog, and as I was walking the dog back and forth along the barbed wire fence that runs along the interstate lightning struck a fence post about 20 feet away. I happened to be facing the strike, eyes wide open. There was a huge column of bright green light, about the width of an adult that strobed twice and faded... Then the concussion hit and it was the absolute loudest sound I have ever heard. My head was ringing and I was flash blind. I had afterimages for several hours and was deafened or had ringing head for two days. Dog was fine though.

[AllSquirrelsGoToHeaven]

I experienced ball lightning during a camping trip last month. It was amazing and terrifying. I was out near the Canadian border and my last night I stayed alone. As dusk set in the wind picked up and clouds moved in all around within minutes. Then things got really still and these orbs started to appear near and within the clouds. I thought I was about to get abducted by aliens or something before I saw the first discharge. They would hover and drift for a second or a few and then they would shoot forked lightning either in the direction of the ground or towards one another and dissolve. Loud bangs like cannon fire followed. This lasted almost the whole night and it barely rained at all. It was the strangest storm I've ever seen.

[charlesgraves]

You have transitioned from tornado only content perfectly. I remember finding your videos a year ago on a plane and binging them. You quickly became one of my fav channels

[shy]

storms are my favorite thing, please keep making general storm content. tornadoes are awesome but anything storm related is so fascinating. youre really thorough and well spoken, thanks for becoming one of my new favorite channels

[NetherStray]

I once saw a meteorite like a bright white falling star, but it had a rainbow tail. Like a prism with red followed by orange etc, not like a sky rainbow stretched behind it. It was amazing, I wish I had a photo or a video of it. It was also after my cat had gone missing, never to be seen again. It felt like she was saying goodbye.

[mikemiller]

When I was in the Navy, I was flight crew on P-3 Orion Sub Hunters. I had the opportunity to see Saint Elmo's Fire on several occasions. Flashing across the windshield, as in your video, but also our prop tips glowed in the dark. It was a little unnerving the first time, but as in all things, I got used to it.

[Bobal]

8:57 I’ve never smelled it, nor heard it, but I have definitely once seen what I’d call “ball lightning.” It appeared a couple of houses away, as I was in my backyard, floated around a bit, then shot upwards (disappeared after an upward jerk?). It was a pale blue, almost white, round light, that moved slowly until right before it vanished. The entire event took maybe 20 seconds. No storm, not cloudless either. I don’t know what to believe on that one, but it is an event I witnessed.

[divalea]

What a coincidence that you uploaded.
Last night, I was out trying to spot Draconid meteors and telling my husband about when I saw a bolide in Louisiana in 1978.
It was a huge green one that came through low cloud cover, and appeared to travel parallel to the ground.
Loved this vid.

[kingofspades]

As a kid growing up terrified of tornadoes in Oklahoma, the switch from that to being fascinated by them (and other meteorological phenomena) is crazy

[MicrowavedAlastair]

St. Elmo's Fire is my favorite electrical phenomenon. It's how I learned about The Jakarta Incident, aka Speedbird 9.

[IAmWillIAmWill]

I lived in St. Cloud, Fla. when Hurricane Charlie passed over at 3am. There was no rain left, just a lot of wind. We walked out during the eye and power was out in the whole town. It was pitch black except for the strange light. Tree branches were all over but what I noticed right away was a pulsing of light everywhere and it was coming from the sky. Bluish, low pulsing light. Everywhere. The eye was passing over us but it wasn't defined. We could see the entire sky turning anti clockwise. I looked closer and saw a network of billions of horizontal tiny lightning bolts threaded and woven and stacked up higher and higher into the system spinning throughout the entire storm lighting up everything around. It looked like a great round blue/white electric carpet spinning in the black sky! I was awestruck. I grew up in Fla. Never saw anything resembling that. May be a condensed kind of sheet or heat lightning maybe, I don't know. They made the whole sky and ground pulse with dim light. I told everyone around to, "remember this because you'll never see anything like it again."

[ohiotalk]

I have a lot of family from Eastern Kentucky. Many of my family members claim to have seen ball lightning at an event. The claim is that ball lightning came through a window during a thunderstorm. The window shattered and the orb buzzed and smelled like sulphur. It went through the family room in front of everyone, and crashed out the back window and exploded about a minute later.

[AnasatisTiMiniatis]

I saw a clear example of ball lightning a while back. By the time I grabbed my phone, it kind of exploded and was gone.

I think this is part of why their existence is questioned. They are so rare, unpredictable, and ephemeral that capturing proof is extremely difficult.

[carolinacoreas]

The tree in front of my parents' house got assaulted by lightning, it was so loud. It left a wound-like mark deep into the trunk. A casualty was a collared dove that was sitting on the main split of the trunk into branches. It was dead, but was in rigor mortis long enough to look like it was still alive. Its eyes were still open, but it's face and neck were stuck turning in the direction from where the lightning struck the tree.

[yayhandles]

Glad to hear the Pecos Hank call-out; his sprite footage really is something else. 👍

[lazygardens]

The people on the mountains having fun with the sparks - they are pretty much where lighting if going to hit. That's a strong hint to get down and out of the electrified zone.

I've see St Elmo's fire: strong thunderstorm in Northern AZ, and the wires and metal posts of the clothesline were covered in it.