Ball Of Fire Lightning

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Ball of fire lightning. Lightning fireball caught on video by woman in naples florida. Generating a lighting ball from a streak lighting. Naked science 60 805 views. Some nineteenth century reports describe balls that eventually explode and leave.

Scientists have observed ball lightning for the first time in nature. Can be white yellow orange red or blue in color and are typically about the size of a small grapefruit although sightings suggest they can range in size from golf ball to beach ball. It is sometimes confused with ball lightning. Kreosan english recommended for you.

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. Elmo s fire is a form of plasma. Normal speed 3 4th the speed half the speed and 1 4th the speed. Elmo s fire can also appear on leaves and grass and even at the tips of cattle horns.

Watch it at different speeds. Names for balls of fire include ignis fatuus will o the wisp ghost lights and ball lightning. They ve been said to hover above graves dance along the banks of rivers signal the imminent arrival of an earthquake and stalk the aisles of airplanes. It s usually seen during thunderstorms as a ball of light about the size of a grapefruit with the intensity of roughly a 40w.

That and other early accounts suggest that ball. These floating fireballs shine as brightly as a 100 watt lightbulb. Advertisement perhaps one of the most famous ball lightning sightings was by a young czar nicholas grandson to czar alexander ii who witnessed a flaming orb during a. One of the first recorded sightings of ball lightning occurred in 1638 when a great ball of fire came through the window of an english church.

However a recorded case didn t occur until the 18th century when georg richmann a pioneer in research on electricity was killed by what s believed to have been ball lightning. Pictured is the spectrum of a cloud to ground lightning strike and of the ball lightning it generated. Ball lightning appears as glowing orbs that seem to occur during thunderstorms usually following a lightning strike.