Lightning appears to strike upwards from a volcano in optical illusion

Lightning appeared to strike upwards due to a spectacular optical effect created during a thunderstorm near the Acatenango Volcano in Guatemala.

[AbdullahSalah]

That's not optical illusion... It's called volcanic lightning

[ShuffleInMotion]

Look at the size of those lightning bolts . Extremely powerful.

[TheToastPeople]

That volcano is a magnet for lightning. If you look on google earth the top is covered in radio towers. Lightning loves hitting those

[MrRsj]

Now, this is the real Mount Olympus! Zeus sends his regards! 🗻🌩⚡️🦅🇬🇷🤣

[SUEELLENELASALI]

Lightning starts from the bottom and goes up

[crazyrex]

If you see lightning striking a volcano you need to run because if lightning strike a volcano it means 🌋

[anthonygonzalez]

Wow😲 that was crazy and beautiful at the same time with that volcanic lightning awesome footage.🌋⚡️

[CC]

That’s the best volcanic lightning I’ve seen, for people who don’t know the clouds of smoke from the volcano are generating the lightning

[Godzilla-rk]

Ghidorah: YOU GOT Godzilla: I should’ve get mothra for this.

[MuslimsAreEvil]

That’s not an illusion that’s upside down lightning or ground to cloud lightning.

[justincredible]

Lightning actually can do this there are many ways lightning can strike one is from the sky to the Earth which is the most common, then it can go from the Earth to the sky, it can go from the sky to space and space to the sky it can even go sideways in the sky and it also is in the volcano particles that electrically charge the air around the area and this is why you can see videos of lightning in the clouds that shoot out from a volcano.

[omegadestroyer]

lightning can in general strike from the ground up

[Roboseal]

POV: you made a infinite lightning bolt generator with a command block at the top of a mountain in minecraft.

[rahulchh]

Electric charges and resonance are so underrated and beautiful I believe they can do wonders if studied as we do with Quantum.

[zarkovelkoski]

Can anyone tell me what year that was ?

[irisessex]

I don’t think I would want to live near that volcano. That’s a beautiful site to behold though.

[angiemitchell]

The volcano is NOT in attack on titan 💀

[DFNDusaJSUS]

Yeah…That doesn’t look like a good thing…Absolutely awesome video…But I was expecting to see Godzilla or something crazy come out the clouds…

[antoinettecossio]

That’s so astonishing to see this unique phenomenon happening it really does make us see how mother nature’s ability to control our environment is truly breathtaking. There’s so much that we don’t understand or even know about these types of events; however, they’re beautiful beyond belief.

[farmerjohn]

Just imagine what primitive people in ancient times thought when they saw something like this! They would sacrifice a virgin to appease it. 😮