Ball Lightning Weather Phenomenon
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Ball lightning weather phenomenon. Scientists can create ball lightning. It may be red orange yellow white or blue in colour and is. But this strange sight isn t a ufo it s only ball lightning. Elmo s fire is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere such as those generated by thunderstorms or created by a volcanic eruption.
However laboratory experiments have been able to produce effects that are visually similar to ball lightning earning its recognition as a genuine phenomenon. This phenomenon was probably ball lightning and it has been well documented and described by people over thousands of years. The ball lightning phenomenon was very large and estimated to be about the size of a bus. Erasmus the other being st.
Lightning is a weather phenomenon that most often occurs during thunderstorms. The strange phenomenon of ball lightning appears during thunderstorms and has been known to break through windows with nasty results. Until roughly 1960 scientists were skeptical over the existence of ball lightning despite many accounts of it spanning back to ancient history. In fact it has been seen by about 5 of the population.
Lyons colorado some mountain partygoers witness a bizarre glowing orb in the distance. Intense light was emitted for about three seconds before flickering out. It can also occur during other weather events that change or alter the atmosphere around them such as volcanic eruptions. Watch weather get weird on strangest weather.
2 minute read by christina nunez. Ball lightning a rare aerial phenomenon in the form of a luminous sphere that is generally several centimetres in diameter. Elmo one of the two italian names for st. Severe static was heard on the radio.
Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon described as luminescent spherical objects that vary from pea sized to several meters in diameter though usually associated with thunderstorms the phenomenon is said to last considerably longer than the split second flash of a lightning bolt. Some nineteenth century reports describe balls that eventually explode and leave. Erasmus of formia also called st.