1. ST. ELMO'S FIRE
It has been around for centuries, beginning with ancient Greece, Julius Caesar, Columbus and Magellan. After Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod, this phenomenon is seen more in the ground, causing the fear inspired by the story as a blue flame spirits and ghosts.
2. BOOM
Thunder Ball is a strange phenomenon, with a review of reports back to ancient Greece. The most common type is the flash of lightning streak, but lightning is causing the greatest threat to life and property. Thunderstorms can be triggered by various events starting from a thermonuclear explosion to launch a rocket like the Challenger or the Apollo 12.
3. DEADLY
In the United States, an average of 58 people killed each year by lightning. Around 250 people survive every year after being struck by lightning, but most live with permanent scars.
4. CLOUD FLASHES
When lightning lit the clouds, sometimes you can see the line in the air around the storm. It's called a lightning cloud-to-air, or referred to as "Anvil Crawler" Lightning can also travel from cloud to cloud. When the lightning seems embedded in the cloud and seemed on the luminosity during the flash, called the lighting sheet or intra-cloud lightning. Many people have seen a hot flash, but said they did not hear the thunder. However, thunder in the distance was too far away to be heard. Whenever there is lightning, there was also thunder.
5. CLOUD-TO-SEA LIGHTNING
Water is an excellent conductor, so it's smart to stay away from the sea, lakes and ponds during lightning storms. In a storm, the sailors at risk of lightning-clouds to the sea. In addition to strong winds, high, choppy waves, and heavy rain. Sailors are encouraged to seek safe harbor until the storm passed and ensure crew wore jackets.
5. RE-STRIKE
Lightning stroke is comprised of 3-4 individuals, but may have more. Separated by 40-50 milliseconds, causing the effect of "strobe light". The first is the strongest. Each successive stroke is usually re-use discharge channel taken by the previous stroke. Prolonged by the rumble of thunder that strikes back.
6. MIND-BLOWING BEAUTY
Lightning through the air emitting a white light, but can appear as different colors depending on weather conditions. Due to humidity, fog, dust and the like, lightning can appear far red or orange in a way that is not the same at sunset.
7. UPPER ATMOSPHERIC LIGHTNING
Although rarely visible to the naked eye, lightning is very special, rarely looked like a flash of red sprites, blue jets and elves. Sprite width, weak flashes in a storm.Sprite lightning appears as a giant jellyfish with blood-red light depends on the long blue tentacles. Jet Blue and shot narrowly over the top of the storm. jJet Blue brighter than sprites and was first recorded from the aircraft.
8. SCARY POWERFUL STRIKES TO TOWERS, BUILDINGS
Typically during storms, 80% lightning seen in the cloud and 20% on land.Buildings, towers and other high points are often struck by lightning, because the electrical path and find the lowest resistance. Lightning down from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the bottom up. Can strike the same place more than once.
9. DOUBLE LIGHTNING
Lightning is an impressive force of nature. Beautiful, and dangerous. The flash of brilliant blue-white lightning is caused by extreme heat. Lightning is hotter than the sun's surface. Double lightning has a double threat as well.
10. MULITPLE STRIKES & LONG EXPOSURE PHOTOS
These are the basic types of cloud lightning that appears to dissolve into a string of short, light, which lasts longer than usual. Lightning looks somewhat like a ribbon. This occurs in a wind storm with high traffic and stroke ago. The wind blew back in a single line to each stroke, as well to one side of the back of previous stroke, showing the effect of the ribbon. Staccato lightning stroke has a short duration, emerged as the single flash is very bright and often have a considerable impact.
11. ROCKET LIGHTNING
Rocket lightning usually horizontal and at cloud base. Luminous channels came through the air with high-speed visual, often disjointed. This movement resembles the movement of the rocket. This is one of the rarest types.
12. VOLCANIC TRIGGERED LIGHTNING
Triggered volcanic lightning is not something we often see. At least before hell erupted in Iceland. There are three types of volcanic lighting. Thunderstorms can be triggered by volcanic eruptions are very large, and materials that emit gases into the atmosphere. Intermediate types of volcanic vents, sometimes has a length of 1.8 km. Then there is a spark of lightning types is much shorter and lasts only a few milliseconds.
13. SENSATIONAL-VOLCANIC LIGHTNING
Lightning, fire, ice, and the ashes are united here, triggering volcanic lightning sounded something like a rifle shot, while electricity produced by generating a long rumble.
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