Bruce MacDonald on Nostr: "They always appear in tandem with lightning hitting the ground, sometimes just ...
"They always appear in tandem with lightning hitting the ground, sometimes just moments after. In fact, they are triggered by cloud-to-ground lightning strikes from large thunderstorm systems, which physically move charges from the cloud. This removal of positive charge around the most active cores of a thunderstorm creates a strong electric field in the atmosphere above."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/11/sprite-chasing-photographers-flashes/#lightning #sprites #photography
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