Ball Lightning Video January 2014
At a distance of 900 m 3 000 ft a total of 1 64 seconds of digital video of the ball.
Ball lightning video january 2014. Ball lightning occurs as glowing spheres ranging in size from. A thunderstorm in china has delivered the first evidence from nature that ball lightning forms thanks to vaporised dirt. 3 seconds of real time video slowed down to show the ball lightning s evolution in shape color and brightness and its associated spectrum. One popular theory is that ball lightning is caused when lightning striking the ground vaporizes some of the silicate minerals in soil.
Carbon in the soil strips the silicates of oxygen through chemical reactions creating a gas of energetic silicon. Great balls of lightning. A video recorded by accident of ball lightning in china is now shedding light on the phenomenon s mysterious origins researchers say. July 16 2015 looking east towards spectacular luverne mn thunderstorm extremely rare footage at 37 secs of what appears to be ball lightning.
Ball lightning is a sphere of electrical light that can appear during a storm. Natural ball lightning probed for the first time. Bizarre glow that has eluded scientists for centuries is captured on video for the first time.