Ball Of Lightning House

She was screaming as she tried to outrun the ball lightning.

Ball of lightning house. A ball of sparks about the size of a basketball entered a commercial aircraft apparently through an engine airtake moved into the fuselage and proceeded to chase a flight attendant up and down the aisle. Ball lightning by mark stenhoff and the wikipedia article on ball lightning is less than riveting reading i wrote this post to explain why i find ball lightning so freaking fascinating. Ball lightning has also been associated with earthquakes the rare flashes of light sometimes seen around earthquakes can take many forms. Ball lightning has different colors.

Red and dazzling white and even blue. Ball lightning is a mysterious phenomenon that hasn t been fully studied yet. The resulting thunder was absolutely deafening and it felt like the house would crumble to its foundation from the tremor. Bluish flames that appear to come out of the ground at.

Most of this post is based on stenhoff s remarkably comprehensive readable and expensive book. Several seconds after i witnessed a small orb of lightning the size of a golf ball appear at the far end of my room close to the back door. The ball lightning left two holes in the plane. Pictured is the spectrum of a cloud to ground lightning strike and of the ball lightning it generated.

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. Literally ten minutes ago lightning struck very close to my house. It s usually seen during thunderstorms as a ball of light about the size of a grapefruit with the intensity of roughly a 40w. Ball lightning is one of the strangest phenomena on our planet.