GIGANTIC SPRITES OVER THE USA: With the arrival of summer, - TopicsExpress



          

GIGANTIC SPRITES OVER THE USA: With the arrival of summer, thunderstorm activity is underway across the USA. We all know what comes out of the bottom of thunderstorms: lightning. Lesser known is what comes out of the top: sprites. Lately there has been a bumper crop of sprites, reports Thomas Ashcraft, a longtime observer of the phenomenon. Here is one of the largest jellyfish sprites I have captured in the last four years. The cluster shot up from western Oklahoma on June 23, so large that it was visible from Ashcrafts observatory in New Mexico 289 miles away -
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:11:19 +0000

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