Check out “Transient” from Dustin Farrell (www.dfvc.com) on Vimeo.
Apparently it's taken at 1000fps!
Lightning strikes
Lightning strikes
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Lightning Strikes
Way cool. Is this weather or climate change?Gob wrote:... Apparently it's taken at 1000fps!
A restless planet for sure.

“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
Re: Lightning strikes
Stunning!

Global map of lightning frequency--strikes/km2/yr. The high lightning areas are on land located in the tropics.

Global map of lightning frequency--strikes/km2/yr. The high lightning areas are on land located in the tropics.
On Earth, the lightning frequency is approximately 40–50 times a second or nearly 1.4 billion flashes per year and the average duration is 0.2 seconds made up from a number of much shorter flashes (strokes) of around 30 microseconds.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan